Southern Colonies

What were some of the challenges the settlers had to overcome in Jamestown?

• Bad drinking water

• Insects carried diseases

• The land was hard and dry

• Most of the settlers were gentlemen who did not know how to farm.

• The settlers spent all their time looking for the "Fountain of Youth"

Jamestown eventually succeeded because

• the settlers started growing tobacco and selling it in England

• the settlers stopped fighting the Powhatan Natives.

• Africans were brought to Jamestown and forced to work as slaves

• Women came to Jamestown and helped to make it a permanent settlement.

Some consequences of European explorers searching for a Northwest Passage were:

• The English found the NW passage through Canada.

• The English found a rich fishing area off the coast of Canada.

• The Hudson River was explored and land around it was claimed for the English and the Dutch.

• The French explored the St. Lawrence River in Canada and founded the settlement of Quebec.

At first the Jamestown settlers and Powhatan Natives got along well with each other.

• true

• false

The Powhatan Natives gave and traded food to the settlers in return for European goods.

• true

• false

Which of the following is true about Roanoke?

• The Spanish tried to settle their twice.

• The first group failed and went back to England.

• The second group of colonists disappeared.

• The first Spanish child to be born in the New World was born there.

Which of the following is true about slavery?

• They were sometimes punished and whipped to keep them working hard.

• They were not treated as human beings, but as property that could be bought and sold.

• Slaves worked from morning to night, nearly every day of the year.

• Families were often separated from each other.

The Powhatan Natives and Jamestown Colonists fought each other over control of the land.

• True

• False

Jamestown was established by the Virginia Company of London in order to..

• make a profit

• provide a safe place for Catholics to worship

• find the Fountain of Youth

• provide jobs for English settlers in debt

Fighting between the Powhatan Natives and the Jamestown colonists began when the colonists wanted the Natives to help them fight the Spanish and the Natives demanded food from the colonists.

• True

• False