JAMESTOWN

Select all the kinds of settlers that were in Jamestown.

• only males

• craftsmen and labors

• high-born gentelmen

• women and children

Jamestown was the first and only attempt for an English settlement.

• Faslse

• True

What happened to the Roanoke Colony, led by John White, of 1587?

• They never made it to the New World.

• They disappeared

• They became the first permanent English colony.

Select all that apply. What were the names of the English ships that came to Jamestown?

• Godspeed

• Discovery

• Susan Constant

John Smith was

• a leader of the Jamestown colony, who led the colonists to survival.

• the creator of the cash crop, tobacco.

• a Native American.

Jamestown became a permanent settlement in

• 1900

• 2022

• 1607

Why was the area chosen for the Jamestown settlement? Select all that apply.

• It was easy to defend

• the water was deep for their ships

• there were Native Americans everywhere

• there was gold

Why was this area not a good place to settle? Select all that apply.

• brackish water that they could not drink

• they did not ask the powhatans permission to stay on the land

• it was swampy with mosquitoes that carried diseases

Today, Jamestown is an island in the James River, but in 1607 it was a peninsula. Select the picture of a peninsula.

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King James granted a charter to which company to establish a settlement in North America?

• New York LLC

• amazon

• Virginia Company