What's in a Name?
The name of the Native group in the reading
What is the Powhatan?
What is 1607?
The name of the business that invested in the voyage and the colony at Jamestown.
What is The Virginia Company?
The daughter of the chief who "saved" John Smith but did not marry him.
Who was Pochahantas?
The most vulnerable winter for the English
What was 1609-1610?
The other nation that attempted to settle in the Chesapeake but gave up.
Who are the Spanish?
The name of the river system or region
What is the Chesapeake?
The year John White led colonists to Roanoke
What is 1585?
The name of the difficult period of Jamestown's history that included the settlers boiling their shoes for soup and eating the salted bodies of the dead.
What is "The Starving Time"?
The name of the colony that was "lost"
The year of the first successful tobacco crop for shipment to England
What is 1612?
The husband of Pochahantas.
Who was John Rolfe?
The name of the chief after Powhatan died
What is Opechancanough?
The years of the two major strikes by the Powhatan.
What was 1622 and 1644?
The title of John Smith's autobiography