4th Grade VA History: Important People

I called the Native Americans "Indians" because I thought I was in the West Indies.

• Christopher Newport

• John Smith

• John Rolfe

• Christopher Columbus

I helped set up the original Jamestown Settlement.

• John Smith

• Christopher Newport

• John Rolfe

• Chief Powhatan

I helped Jamestown survive by starting a "forced work plan."

"If you don't work, you don't eat"

I also initiated trade with the natives.

• Christopher Columbus

• Christopher Newport

• Captain John Smith

• Pochahontas

I was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and the wife of John Rolfe.

• Harriet Tubman

• Maggie Walker

• Pocahontas

• Mary Bower

I was the leader of the Powhatan Indians.

• Pochahontas

• Chief Powhatan

• Jack Jouett

• Oliver Hill

I established the Tobacco crop as a "cash crop" and married Pocahontas.

• John Smith

• Christopher Columbus

• John Rolfe

• Powhatan

I was the first President of the United States.

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Patrick Henry

• Jack Jouett

I wrote the Declaration of Independence.

• Jack Jouett

• James Armistead Lafayette

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Jefferson

I rode on horseback to Charlottesville to warn Thomas Jefferson that the British were

coming to arrest him and the members of the General Assembly.

• Jack Jouett

• Patrick Henry

• George Washington

• James Lafayette

I was an enslaved African American who served in the Continental Army and requested my freedom after the war.

• Jack Jouette

• James Armistead Lafayette

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison