VS 3 a-c Settling Jamestown

Choose all the reasons that England wanted to establish an American colony.

• to increase wealth and power

• to make friends with the Indians

• to find gold and silver in America

• to open new markets for trade

• to discover new plants and animals

Jamestown was primarily what kind of venture?

• religious (church)

• discovery

• economic

• healthy

(a)   financed the settlement of Jamestown.

In what year was Jamestown founded?

• 1607

• 1619

• 1620

• 1776

Jamestown became the first _____ English settlement in North America.

• only

• permanent

• third

• fun

Choose all the reasons that site was chosen for the Jamestown settlement.

• It was a pretty spot.

• It could be easily defended from attack by sea.

• It was deep enough for ships to dock.

• They believed it had a good supply of drinking water.

• They saw lots of deer there.

Two of the natural resources from Jamestown were...

• gold

• silver

• timber

• iron

Which was NOT a reason a charter was granted to the Virginia Company of London.

• to establish a settlement in North America

• to find new medicines in the settlement

• to define the physical boundaries of the colony

• to extend English rights to the setlers.