Colonization: Jamestown Settlement

In 1606, King James sent 100 men to the New World to ________.

• farm

• search for gold

• wage war with Spain

• build a second castle

What ended the initial violence between the Powhatan tribe and Englishmen?

• The establishment of trade

• A devastating hurricane

• The signing of a peace treaty

• Surrender by the Englishmen

________ led Jamestown through a period of starvation and disease and established a relatively peaceful relationship with the Powhatan tribe.

• King James

• John Smith

• John Rolfe

• Lord De La Warr

True or False: Before a new ship arrived with supplies and more people, most Jamestown colonists wanted to go back to England.

• True

• False

The arrival of a second wave of colonists to Jamestown led to a period of _____

• prosperous trade between the Powhatan tribe and colonists

• war waged against the Powhatan tribe

• religious fundamentalism in the colony

• disinterest in the New World by the British government

What event restored peace in Virginia after the First Anglo-Powhatan War?

• The assassination of John Smith

• The establishment of the House of Burgesses

• The arrival of additional British colonists

• The marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe

What commodity bolstered the economy of Jamestown?

• sugar

• rice

• tobacco

• cotton

The intensive labor(workers) that expanded Jamestown’s economy was carried out largely by ________.

• paid teams of Native Americans and young Englishmen

• farmers and their immediate family

• European indentured servants and enslaved Africans

• volunteers from other parts of the New World

The House of Burgesses is considered an early model for ________.

• the Electoral College

• religious separatism

• democratic socialism

• representative democracy

As English settlers spread farther into Virginia, what happened to members of the Powhatan Nation?

• They were given a small plot of land just outside Jamestown.

• They were paid for their land.

• They were killed or pushed farther inland.

• They were invited to live among colonists.