Virginia Studies Ch. 3

What important event occurred in Jamestown in 1620?

• Caribbean plantation owners moved to Jamestown

• Queen Elizabeth came for a royal visit

• A large group of women arrived from England.

• The Native Americans sent an ambassador to England.

What did the charters give the Virginia Company of London the right to do?

• Purchase ships and supplies at the expense of the King

• Bring Africans to the colonies

• Establish a settlement in North America

• Give each settler 10 acre plots

Jamestown became a permanent English settlement in

• 1605

• 1620

• 1644

• 1607

What country sent sailors to capture Africans from what is now present day Angola?

• England

• Spain

• Portugal

• France

Who paid for the settlement of Jamestown?

• Virginia Company of London

• John Smith

• King of England

• France

Why was it important for Jamestown to be near deep water?

• To fish

• To be safe from Indian attacks

• To have good land for farming

• To allow boats traveling from Europe to dock

What is a burgess?

• a citizen representative in the Virginia colonial government

• another name for a royal governor of a colony

• a stockholder in the Virginia Company of London

• John Smith's nickname

Who was Powhatan?

• an Indian princess

• chief of many tribes that helped teach the colonists survival skills

• an Indian interpreter

• American Indian chief who waged countless attacks against the English colonists

Why were the Jamestown settlers starving?

• Insects ate all the crops.

• The Native Americans burned all the crops.

• A flood wiped out all the crops.

• The colonists lacked basic farming and building skills.

Jamestown was originally a peninsula bordered on the three sides by the

• Potomac River

• Rappahannock River

• James River

• York River