4/5 Social Studies

"He who will not work, will not ______!"

• Survive
• Live
• Eat
• Grow

This person was chief of many tribes and provided leadership to his people and taught the settlers survival skills. 

• Pocahantas
• Powhatan
• John Smith
• Governor of Virginia

Who PAID for the settlement of Jamestown? 

• King of England
• Powhatan
• Virginia Company of London
• John Smith

Who were the first people to live in Virginia?

• English
• Africans
• French
• American Indians

The first permanent English settlement in North America was

• Werowocomoco
• Yorktown
• Richmond
• Jamestown

The site they chose was marshy and lacked safe drinking water, the settlers lacked skills, and many settlers died of disease and starvation. These were:

• Problems faced by settlers in the midwest
• Hardships faced by the settlers at Jamestown
• Hardships placed on the Indians by the settlers
• Problems the settlers thought they might have

The most profitable agricultural product in the Virginia colony was

• lumber
• peanuts
• corn
• tobacco

Why were Africans brought to Jamestown in 1619?

• To work on Sugar Plantations
• To seek Religious freedom
• To work on tobacco plantations
• To fight against American Indians

Jamestown was established in 1607 by the VA Company of London as a 

• relocation area for English noblemen
• business venture
• place to hid indentured servants
• haven for religious zealots

What was the first established assembly in the New World in the 1640s

• Virgina House of Burgesses
• Virgina Company of London
• Presdient
• House of Senate