Early English Communities

Sir Walter Raleigh sent English Settlers to ___________ island in 1587, which is in present day North Carolina.

• Delaware

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

When Sir Walter Raleigh returned back to Roanoke in 1590, what did he find?

• The settlers had created a community with the local natives.

• The word Croatoan carved in a tree and all 113 settlers were gone.

• He came back and saw that there was a forest fire that destroyed the settlement and all the settlers left.

In 1607, 105 English settlers arrived in what is now Virginia. They created a settlement and called it __________________ after the king of England.

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Georgetown

Jamestown's leader John Smith was captured by Native Americans and taken to Chief Powhatan. According to the legend, who saved John Smith?

• Sohcahtoa

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Pocahontas

Why did many of the settlers of Jamestown die?

• Hunger

• Diseases

• Both

In which of the colonies were African slaves brought to farm the land?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

In 1733, who set up a colony in George to help people who were in prison for not paying a debt (money owe to another person)?

• Mary Musgrove

• James Oglethorpe

• William Penn

Mary Musgrove was an interpreter in the Georgia colony.

Squanto was an interpreter for the Pilgrims.

What is an interpreter?

• They teach people how to grow crops.

• They help people communicate with one another if they speak two or more languages.

• They form a religion for people to follow.

Who started the colony of Pennsylvania? This person was a Quaker, which is a follower of a religion that believes in peace and equal treatment for all people.

• William Penn

• John Smith

• Benjamin Franklin

William Bradford led which group of people on the Mayflower ship to the New World? They landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This group of people had the first Thanksgiving with the Native Americans in 1621.

• Quakers

• Pilgrims

• Native Americans