Jamestown and Colonial Virginia

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

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

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

Which of the following was a hardship that they Jamestown settlers faced?

• The high plateau was a good place to build the settlement

• All of the settlers, who were builders, sailed back to England

• The site was marshy and lacked safe drinking water

• The settlement would be built on a peninsula

Which of the following was a hardship that the Jamestown settlers faced?

• The English settlers lacked the skills necessary to survive there

• The settlement was located on a peninsula

• John Smith was a strong leader

• The settlement had plenty of fresh, drinking water