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WorksheetsStudies Weekly Week 9
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 4hrs 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What did the Powhatan do when crops no longer grew in a certain place?
a)
They grew different crops there.
b)
They packed up and moved.
c)
They gave the crops more water.
d)
They asked the English settlers for help.
2.
One theory about the Roanoke settlers is that they may have disappeared because _______.
a)
a gold mine caved in
b)
aliens abducted them
c)
they had no houses
d)
American Indians may have taken them.
3.
England sent more and more settlers to the New World to gain _______.
a)
corn
b)
American Indian jewelry
c)
land
d)
horses
4.
Hundreds of American Indians near early English settlements were killed by _______.
a)
guns
b)
diseases
c)
starvation
d)
civil wars
5.
John Smith was a member of the settlement at _______.
a)
Plymouth
b)
Roanoke
c)
Jamestown
d)
St. Augustine
6.
What do you think "outnumbered" means in this sentence? "The Powhatan outnumbered the colonists for a while."
a)
to be better at math
b)
to have more food
c)
to grow more cash crops
d)
to have more people
7.
John White's family disappeared at the lost colony of ______.
a)
Roanoke
b)
New Amsterdam
c)
Plymouth
d)
Jamestown
8.
Plymouth is in the present-day state of ______.
a)
Massachusetts
b)
Maine
c)
Virginia
d)
North Carolina
9.
The first Thanksgiving was a feast attended by ________.
a)
Pilgrims Wampanoag Indians
b)
Powhatans and Jamestown settlers
c)
Roanoke settlers and Croatoan Indians
d)
John White and John Smith
10.
What cash crop saved Jamestown?
a)
Corn
b)
Tobacco
c)
Wheat
d)
Potatoes
11.
When Tobacco was planted, what effect did that have on Indians in the area.
a)
they smoked more and died
b)
they helped grow lots of tobacco
c)
the ground was ruined and the Indians had to find other land to grow crops
d)
the colonists helped feed the Indians with the money they made from tobacco
12.
Who drew pictures of early settlers and American Indian, made maps and wrote about the New World in the 1500's?
a)
John White
b)
John Smith
c)
Pocahontas
d)
King Henry
13.
What did the lost settlers of Roanoke write as clues?
a)
Help
b)
Gone Fishing
c)
CRO
d)
Apache
14.
Think about what you have learned about explorers and settlers in Studies Weekly in the last few weeks. List 5 reasons England sent settlers to the New World.
a)
houses, tobacco, fish, deer, corn
b)
water, resources, land, spices, and animals
c)
land, Indians, slaves, gold, diseases
d)
land, loot, labor, gold, religion
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