1.4 Review

The leadership of John Smith helped Jamestown's settlers survive some of their early hardships.

• True

• False

The defeat of the Spanish Armada left England free to colonize North America without a serious Spanish threat.

• True

• False

Jamestown was the first settlement attempted by the English in America.

• True

• False

In what year was Jamestown founded?

• 1513

• 1585

• 1607

• 1776

What crop became profitable for the settlers of Jamestown?

• Corn

• Pumpkins

• Tomatoes

• Tobacco

What English nobleman organized an unsuccessful colony, called the "Lost Colony," on Roanoke Island?

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• John Cabot

• John Smith

• Sir Francis Drake

Which of the following is NOT a significant achievement of the Jamestown settlement?

• Its settlers quickly cooperated to build a strong colony

• It established the first representative law-making body in America

• It developed a crop that it could raise and sell to Europe

• It was the first permanent English settlement in the New World

The first Africans to arrive in Jamestown were probably

• slaves

• freedmen

• explorers

• indentured servants

What did the Virginians call their first representative assembly?

• The House of Commons

• The House of Burgesses

• The House of Planters

• The House of Representatives

Which group of Indians lived near the Jamestown settlement?

• The Algonquian

• The Pueblo

• The Cherokee

• The Powhatan