Blood on the River Vocabulary

Shared by the whole community

• poorhouse

• communal

• rations

• dwindling

Becoming less, going away

• dwindling

• rations

• desolate

a government home where work and food were provided

• communal

• apprentice

• poorhouse

person who works for someone in exchange for job training

• apprentice

• proprietor

• quill

certain amount of food allowed per day

• dwindling

• desolate

• rations

• encroaching

lonely and bare

• desolate

• rations

• encroaching

a large feather used for writing

• quilt

• rations

• poorhouse

• quill

moving into space belonging to someone/something else

• encroaching

• dwindling

• quill

What are 3 challenges that settlers had to face in Jamestown?

• Hunger - Lack of Food

• Native Americans

• Bears

• Unclean Water

a wooden platform used to hang people on

• poorhouse

• gallows

• monotonous