Jamestown and Plymouth

In what year was Jamestown, the first permanent English colony settled?

• 1492

• 1607

• 1776

• 2007

Who said, "If you don't work, then you don't eat!"?

• Chief Powhatan
• Christopher Newport
• Lord De La Warr
• Captain John Smith

Jamestown was located on a peninsula in ...

• Virginia
• North Carolina
• Florida
• New York

Why was Jamestown started?

• Virginia Company wanted to start a new business.
• Virginia Company wanted to create a new society with the American Indians.
• Virginia Company wanted to find gold.

What cash crop did John Rolfe introduce that helped the Jamestown survive?

• tobacco

• wheat

• cotton

• oranges

The Virginia House of Burgesses

• Established the first representative government in the New World

• Established the first army in the New World.

• Regulated what the people were allowed to eat.

• Determined who could leave the colony.

To keep order, all of the original Pilgrim men signed a document that promised to create fair laws that all members of the society would follow. What was the name of this document?

• Mayflower Compact

• Mayrose Compact

• Mayday Compact

• Peaceful, Fair Laws Compact

What caused cooperation between the colonists and the natives to come to an end?

• More colonists showed up and began moving on to native tribes' land

• Racism

• Unfair trade deals

• Colonists were unclean and had a horrible smell.

Why was Plymouth established?

• To provide a place where Separatists (Pilgrims) could worship freely.

• To provide a place where Quakers could worship freely.

• To provide a place where Catholics could worship freely.

• To provide a place where Puritans could worship freely.

a private trading company that sold shares to investors to raise capital. The investors share in profits and losses.

• stock

• charter

• apprentice

• joint stock company