Jamestown Colony DL

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Which explorer claimed land in the Americas called Virginia?

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Virginia was already home to ...

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dozens of tribes and nations for thousands of years.

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Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of North America spoke ________.

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Algonquian

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King James I gave the Virginia Company which document that gave them the right to set up a colony and run it?

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Charter

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The Roanoke colony was the ______________ attempt at settling North America by the English.

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1st

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What year did the colonist settle in Jamestown?

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1607

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What was the name of the group of men who were financially investing in the colony?

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The Virginia Company of London

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What did the settlers name the river they traveled to find their settlement site?

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James River

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The indian's arrows went through the settlers tents, so the colony leaders fixed this by building a fort around their homes called a

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palisade

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The settlers started getting sick. What caused the sickness?

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Brackish water, bug bites, diseases.