Jamestown: review for Quizzes 2 & 3

When was Jamestown founded?

• 1606
• 1619
• 1620
• 1607

What change led to the survival of Jamestown?

• Building homes on marshy land. 
• Captain John Smith's strong leadership.
• A cure for diseases was discovered.
• Some settlers died of starvation/

What year did the women arrive at Jamestown?

• 1630
• 1607
• 1620
• 1645

Without the forced work program of Captain John Smith, what would most likely have happened?

• The English settlers would have relied on the Scots-Irish to teach them how to farm. 
• The English settlers would have survived without problems. 
• The Native Peoples would have saved the English settlers. 
• The English settlers would have died from starvation.

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

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

Why did so many colonists die?

• Because of their relations with the Native Americans
• The environment and the settlers lack of skills

Because Africans arrived in Jamestown what was the effect or what happened?

• More families could be started 
• The English could grow more tobacco and make more money

why was the house of burgesses  so important in history?

• The King continued to make decisions
• It was the first elected legislative body in English America giving settlers the opportunity to control their own government.

In _________, the governor of Virginia called a meeting of the General Assembly. 

• 1619
• 1607
• 1620
• 1608

By the 1640's, the burgesses became a separate legislative body called the ____________.

• Governor's Council

• House of Burgesses

• General Assembly

• The Executive Branch