Jamestown

In what year was Jamestown 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

The House of Burgesses gave the colonists in Virginia the opportunity to control _______________

• their own government

• the First Americans

• the Royal Governor

• the King of England

The chief Powhatan had a daughter who served as a contact between the native people and colonists, what was her name?

• Mulan

• Pocahontas

• Cinderella

• Moana

What was the most profitable agriculture product in Jamestown?

• corn

• flax

• tobacco

• beans

The group of representatives elected from towns and plantations in Virginia: House of ________________

• Representatives
• Senators
• Servants
• Burgesses

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

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

What did England hope to find in America?

• tobacco and cotton

• food and furs

• gold and silver

• corn and metal