Jamestown Quiz- Dupuie

Who granted the charters?

• The governor

• The King of England

• Captain John Smith

• Chief Powhatan

What did the charters give the Virginia Company of London the right to do?

• establish a settlement in North America

• purchase ships and supplies at the expense of the king

• bring Africans to the colonies as slaves

• give out ten acre plots to each settler in the colony

Jamestown was established as the first permanent English settlement in which year?

• 1620

• 1619

• 1640

• 1607

What country sent sailors to capture Africans from what is present day Angola?

• England

• Spain

• Portugal

• France

What important event occured in Jamestown in 1620?

• Caribbean plantation owners moved to Jamestown

• A large group of women arrived from England

• Queen Elizabeth came for a royal visit

• The American Indians sent an ambassador to England

Who paid for the settlement of Jamestown?

• King of England

• John Smith

• France

• Virginia Company of London

Why was it important for the Jamestown settlement to be near deep water?

• The colonists were all fishermen

• It helped guarantee against American Indin attacks

• Land near deep water was better for farming

• Boats traveling with good to and from Europe needed a deep water dock

Who was Powhatan?

• An Indian Princess

• The English interpreter for the English colonists

• Chief of many tribes that helped teach the colonists survival skills

• American Indian chief that waged countless attacks against the English colonists

Why were Jamestown settlers starving?

• The first colonists lacked basic farming and building skills

• The American Indians burned all their crops

• Insects ate all their crops

• A flood wiped away all the crops

Jamestown was originally a peninsula bordered on three sides by the ________.

• Potomac River

• Rappahannock River

• James River

• York River