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Jamestown Vocabulary

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The process of settling and taking control over a land and its people

a)

Colonization

b)

Colony

c)

Roanoke Colony

d)

Virginia Company

2.

A group from one place moves to another to settle there

a)

Colonization

b)

Colony

c)

Private Investors

d)

Council

3.

Two tries to have the first English settlement

a)

Commodity

b)

Empire

c)

Monopoly

d)

Roanoke Colony

4.

A company with a goal to use land in America

a)

Private Investors

b)

Virginia Company

c)

Governor

d)

Makeshift

5.

Giving money to someone

a)

Repel

b)

Financed

c)

Famine

d)

Monopoly

6.

A company that uses their money to help another

a)

Private Investors

b)

Virginia Company

c)

Export

d)

Incapacitated

7.

A large variety of land under the power of someone

a)

Empire

b)

Dysentery

c)

Under siege

d)

Palisade Wall

8.

Something of value

a)

Monopoly

b)

Famine

c)

Commodity

d)

Disease-Ridden

9.

Something full of sickness

a)

Bug-Infested

b)

Disease-Ridden

c)

Dysentery

d)

Famine

10.

A large amount of insects where there shouldn't be any

a)

Repel

b)

Starving Time

c)

Makeshift

d)

Bug-Infested

11.

To force an enemy away

a)

Repel

b)

Palisade Wall

c)

Incapacitated

d)

Dysentery

12.

An extreme shortage of food

a)

Starving Time

b)

Dysentery

c)

Famine

d)

Financed

13.

An infection making people produce waste until they die

a)

Dysentery

b)

Export

c)

Disease-Ridden

d)

Under siege

14.

A wall made for defense

a)

Under Siege

b)

Council

c)

Empire

d)

Palisade Wall

15.

A group of people who make decisions

a)

Governor

b)

Martial Law

c)

Council

d)

Private Investors

16.

Without strength or power

a)

Incapacitated

b)

Dysentery

c)

Export

d)

Starving Time

17.

A period without food

a)

Famine

b)

Starving Time

c)

Makeshift

d)

Bug-Infested

18.

A public official that is the head of a state

a)

Monopoly

b)

Dysentery

c)

Governor

d)

Roanoke Colony

19.

Undergoing an attack where enemies surround a location

a)

Martial Law

b)

Commodity

c)

Colonization

d)

Under Siege

20.

Someone substituting another person

a)

Repel

b)

Monopoly

c)

Makeshift

d)

Colony

21.

Suspension of ordinary laws

a)

Export

b)

Martial Law

c)

Makeshift

d)

Famine

22.

To send goods to another country for money

a)

Colony

b)

Colonization

c)

Private Investors

d)

Export

23.

The control over a service

a)

Under Siege

b)

Monopoly

c)

Empire

d)

The Virginia Company