2nd Virginia Studies Benchmark Review

In what year was Jamestown settled?

• 1492
• 1607
• 1608
• 2081

What was the name of the indian girl who told the indians they should get along with settlers and help them survive?

• Belle
• Ariel
• Pocahontas
• Rapunzel

Who gave a group of men permission to make Jamestown?

• King James
• lebron james
• vincent davis
• King Ferdinand 

Jamestown was located on a peninsula in ...

• Virginia
• North Carolina
• Florida
• New York

Who said, "If you don't work, then you don't eat!"?

• Chief Powhatan
• Christopher Newport
• Lord De La Warr
• Captain John Smith

Which of the following choices was not a reason that England started a colony in Jamestown?

• Increase wealth and power
• Find raw materials
• Trade with other countries
• To get a new King

What brought the original colonists from England to Jamestown?

• the search for food
• the search for gold and silver
• the search for tobacco
• the search for religious freedom

Who PAID for the settlement of Jamestown? 

• King of England
• Powhatan
• Virginia Company of London
• John Smith

The site they chose was marshy and lacked safe drinking water, the settlers lacked skills, and many settlers died of disease and starvation. These were:

• Problems faced by settlers in the midwest
• Hardships faced by the settlers at Jamestown
• Hardships placed on the Indians by the settlers
• Problems the settlers thought they might have

Jamestown was established in 1607 by the VA Company of London as a 

• relocation area for English noblemen
• business venture
• place to hid indentured servants
• haven for religious zealots