Early English Colonies

What cash crop saved Jamestown? What effect did it have on American Indians in the area?

• Corn.  The Indians loved to help the colonists plant corn.
• Tobacco.  When the colonists planted tobacco it left less room for the Indians.
• Beans.  The Indians didn't like the colonists stealing their beans from the fields.
• Squash.  The Indians had less room because of all the squash fields.

One theory about the Roanoke settlers is that they may have disappeared because ___________.

• a gold mine caved in
• aliens abducted them
• they had no houses
• American Indians may have taken them

What did the Powhatan do when crops no longer grew in a certain place?

• They grew different crops there.
• They packed up and moved.
• They gave the crops more water.
• They asked the English settlers for help.

Hundreds of American Indians near early English settlements were killed by ___________.

• guns
• diseases
• starvation
• civil wars

What do you think "outnumbered" means in this sentence? "The Powhatan outnumbered the colonists for awhile."

• to be better at math
• to have more food
• to grow more cash crops
• to have more people

Plymouth is in the present-day state of ___________.

• Massachusetts
• Maine
• Virginia
• North Carolina

How were the experience of Jamestown settlers and Pilgrims alike? How were they different?

• Both groups of settlers faced a harsh winter and had a lot to learn.  Jamestown fought with the Powhatan, but the Pilgrims and Wampanoag got along.
• The Pilgrims all disappeared because they were abducted by the Wampanoag.  Jamestown didn't have any settlers die.

John White's family disappeared at the lost colony of ___________.

• Roanoke
• Jamestown
• Plymouth
• Virginia

John Smith was a member of the settlement at ___________.

• Plymouth
• Roanoke
• Jamestown
• St. Augustine

The Jamestown settlement was the first _______.

• to have an Indian princess, to celebrate Thanksgiving and to plant corn fields
• English settlement in America, to have a representative government and to use slaves
• to celebrate Thanksgiving, to have Croatoan friends and to raise chickens
• to raise horses, to raise cows and to see the birth of a New World baby