Jamestown 2

Captain John Smith's declaration "He that will not work shall not eat" drove the Jamestown settlers to start:

• trade

• hunt

• build

• farm

The failure of Jamestown's crops in its second year was due to:

• poor soil

• drought

• over farming

• native attacks

The Powhatan surrounded Jamestown in response to:

• settlers violent demand for food

• John Smiths gunpowder accident

• the kidnapping of Pocahontas

• the Indian massacre of 1622

What was one consequence of the Starving Time?

• Many Powhatan villages suffered food shortages

• Jamestown lost most of its settlers to disease and hunger

• The Powhatan and the settlers strengthened their alliance

• The settlers abandoned Jamestown and returned to England

The marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe _____ hostilities between the Powhatan and the English.

• sparked

• increased

• justified

• eased

Jamestown's fortunes turned when the settlers:

• discovered gold

• returned land to the Powhatan

• began growing tobacco

• developed a cure for malaria

The House of Burgesses is most similar to which U.S. government institution?

• Congress

• White House

• Supreme Court

• State Department

Eventually, tobacco plantations came to depend on __________ for labor.

• English settlers

• enlsaved Africans

• Powhatan prisioners

• Virginia Company stakeholders

What was Opechancanough's role in the Indian Massacre of 1622?

• He planned the attack

• He argued against the attack

• He warned the English about the attack

• He negotiated the end of the attack

Who controlled Virginia after the colony's original charter was revoked?

• Virginia Company of London

• John Smith

• John Rolfe

• King James I