5th - Early English Settlements

What type of government has a king or queen that is a ruler?

• colonists

• democratic

• Jamestown

• monarchy

What is a form of government where citizens elect their leaders?

• colonists

• representative government

• Jamestown

• monarchy

Who were the people who settled in Roanoke and Jamestown?

• colonists

• monarchy

• representative government

• Jamestown

What was Virginia's government more like than England's?

• monarchy

• Jamestown

• democratic

• colonists

What was the name of the first English colony in America?

• colonists

• Jamestown

• monarchy

• democratic

What is a settlement?

• small,newly built community

• place ruled by another country

• group of people who travel together

• won whose residents agree on things

What delayed Captain John White's return to Roanoke?

• a war between England and Spain

• a trip to another country

• a need to raise money for the ships

• a jail sentence for 2 years

Why is Roanoke called the "last colony"?

• John While couldn't find his way back to it.

• It lost a contest to Jamestown.

• Everyone there went back to England.

• All of the colonists disappeared.

What was the problem with the original site of Jamestown?

• It was high on a hill.

• It was too rocky.

• It was wet land with bad water.

• It was too close to American Indians.

Why was Virginia considered more democratic than England?

• Colonists had freedom of speech.

• All men and women could vote.

• Any man could be a leader.

• Elected officials made the laws.