Jamestown TEST Review

When did the first African Americans arrive at the Jamestown settlement?

• 1601

• 1607

• 1620

• 1619

Which term describes a crop that is grown to sell for money rather than to be used by the growers?

• Credit Crop

• Crop bundle

• Cash Crop

• Crop bale

Which leader came up with the forced work program?

"If you don't work, you don't eat"

• King James I

• Chief Powhatan

• Captain John White

• Captain John Smith

Who was allowed to be a representative in the House of Burgesses?

• African slaves

• English women

• English men

• Indentured servants

What is the name of the oldest representative legislative body of government in the western hemisphere called today?

• English Parliament

• Virginia Company of London

• General Assembly

• Committees of Correspondence

What was the cash crop of Jamestown

• Tobacco

• Corn

• Apples

• Wheat

Why were some people from England considered indentured servants?

• They only paid for 1/2 of the cost of the voyage from England to Jamestown

• They work their entire lives as slaves

• They repaid the VA Company of London for their voyage by agreeing to work 5-7 years

• They worked as sailors on the ships

Who introduced a better tasting tobacco to the people of England?

• John Rolfe

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Cpt. John Smith

• Cpt. Christopher Newport

How did tobacco farming contribute to the development of colonial Virginia?

• Educated gentlemen worked in the tobacco fields

• English women were brought to the New World to help in growing and harvesting tobacco

• More factories & industries were built

• The demand for better tasting tobacco gave Virginia its first and most important cash crop

How did English women contribute to the development of Jamestown?

• Women established their own restaurants and clothing shops

• Women increased the quality of life for the men by cooking meals, sewing clothes, and taking care of the sick

• Women established hospitals to take care of the American Indians (First Americans)

• Women established schools to teach the children