Early English Communities

First permanent English settlement in North America.

• Jamestown
• Massachusetts Bay
• Pennsylvania
• Roanoke Island

Jamestown was settled for ..

• Economic Reasons
• Religious Freedom

In what year was Jamestown settled?

• 1492
• 1607
• 1776
• 2007

Jamestown was located on a peninsula in ...

• Virginia
• North Carolina
• Florida
• New York

Why did the settlers select the name "Jamestown"?

• To honor King James
• To honor a baby born on the ship
• To honor Saint James
• To honor the ship's captain

Why did Jamestown need tobacco to survive?

• Because the American Indians would not help them.
• Because they never found any real gold.
• Because they were addicted to smoking.
• Because people in England would not buy anything else.

What cash crop saved Jamestown? What effect did it have on American Indians in the area?

• Corn.  The Indians loved to help the colonists plant corn.
• Tobacco.  When the colonists planted tobacco it left less room for the Indians.
• Beans.  The Indians didn't like the colonists stealing their beans from the fields.
• Squash.  The Indians had less room because of all the squash fields.

John Smith was a member of the settlement at ___________.

• Plymouth
• Roanoke
• Jamestown
• St. Augustine

The Jamestown settlement was the first _______.

• to have a Native American princess, to celebrate Thanksgiving and to plant corn fields

• English settlement in America and have a representative government

• to celebrate Thanksgiving, to have Croatoan friends and to raise chickens

• to raise horses, to raise cows and to see the birth of a New World baby

The English sent settlers to the New World to (choose all correct answers):

• Find gold

• Find the Northwest Passage trade route

• Find adventure

• Bring Christianity to Native peoples