WorksheetsJamestown - Part 2
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What do we call the Winter of 1609, in which the natives cut-off trade and food supply with the Jamestown settlers, leading to a massive amount of colonist deaths?
The Starving Time
The Good Old Days
Jamestown was an economic venture. King James wanted the settlers to find what for England?
jewels, metal, and paper
gold, silver, timber, and iron
spices, water, and technology
timber, gold, and diamonds
What was the name of the group of men who were financially investing in the colony?
King James Industries
Captain Smith and Sons
The Virginia Company of London
The Jamestown Initiative
What did the settlers name the river they traveled to find their settlement site?
James River
Hudson River
Trinity River
Brazos River
The settlers started getting sick. What caused the sickness?
Brackish water
bug bites
diseases
all of the above
Who was John Smith
leader of the new colony
travel guide of the new found land
banker from London
farmer
The winter of 1609-1610 became know as the
early voting season
wedding season
starving time
white winter
Who did John Rolfe marry?
Powhatan
Sacagawea
Clara Sherman
Pocahontas
What kind of crop grew well around Jamestown and became the colony's first cash crop to England?
tabacco
cotton
corn
rice
The practice of farming.
brackish
agriculture
palisade
cash crop
