Jamestown Quizizz

Directions: Use the advertisement to answer the question.

The advertisement was MOST LIKELY written by -

• John Smith

• Christopher Newport

• The Virginia Company of London

• Chief Powhatan

Portuguese sailors captured African men and women from what is present day -

• Morocco

• Ethiopia

• Angola

• Botswana

Directions: Use the diagram to answer the question.

Which BEST completes the diagram?

• Let settlers rule themselves

• Defined the physical boundaries of the colony

• Allowed settlers to make their own laws

• Gave settlers the right to worship as they pleased

Directions: Select the three (3) correct answers.

Which of the following are ways the native peoples contributed to the survival of Jamestown?

• Helped settlers find gold and silver

• Showed the settlers how to plant corn and tobacco

• Pocahontas served as a contact between the native people and the English

• Powhatan taught the settlers survival skills

The Virginia colony's economy was greatly dependent upon -

• forced trade with sailors

• the arrival of women

• temporary support from Spain

• temporary and forced servitude

Who initiated trading relationships with the native peoples?

• Captain John Smith

• The King of England

• Pocahontas

• Christopher Newport

The arrival of additional English women at Jamestown made it possible for setters to establish -

• tobacco fields

• families

• relationships with native peoples

• the General Assembly

Directions: Select the four (4) correct answers.

Which of the following were hardships faced by the settlers at Jamestown?

• Lacked safe drinking water

• Lack of money

• The settlers lacked some skills necessary to provide for themselves

• Many settlers died from starvation and disease

• A drought at the time of the settlement reduced the amount of food available

Use the diagram to answer the question.

Which bubble does NOT belong on the diagram?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

When the settlers arrived in 1607, they founded Jamestown on a narrow peninsula bordered on three sides by the -

• Chesapeake Bay

• York River

• James River

• Potomac River