VA Studies Jamestown

What are the reasons that England wanted to colonize North America? Choose all correct answers.

• Increase wealth and power.

• to set up a trade route to India

• Raw materials

• Silver and gold

• to trade with the native Americans

Which group financed the colonization of Virginia?

• The Virginia Company of London

• The Virginia Company of France

• The Virginia Company of Norway

• The Virginia Company of Canada

Jamestown was founded in __________.

• 1492

• 1602

• 1607

• 2012

The first permanent English settlement was __________

• Werewocomoco

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Williamsburg

Jamestown was an ____________

• archaeology site

• economic venture

• adventure

• explorer's home

Jamestown is now located on a ___________.

• Peninsula

• Island

• Ocean

• mountain

The charters granted to the Virginia Company of London allowed

• the right to own American Indian land

• the right to plant and to grow trees

• the right to establish a settlement in North America and keep English rights

• the right to own land

Who granted the charters to the Virginia Company of London?

• King James 1

• Pocahontas

• Captain Newport

• Captain John Smith

The settlers came to North America to find

• silver

• gold

• raw materials

• oil

Which of the following was one of the first groups to go to the new world?

• 100 cats and dogs

• 100 gradmas and grandpas

• 100 lizards

• 100 men and boys