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Jamestown - Part 2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the 1st elected legislative body in North America called?
a)
The House of Burgesses
b)
The VA Company of London
c)
The Governer's Council
d)
The Virginia Council of Burgesses
2.
Which legislative body came from the establishment of the House of Burgesses at Jamestown?
a)
Virginia General Assembly
b)
British Parliament
c)
Governor's Council
d)
House of Delegates
3.
Who had the power to grant charters that allowed for the settlement in North America?
a)
The King of England
b)
Captain John Smith
c)
Chief Powhatan
d)
The Royal Governor
4.
What was the name of the settlement established by the Virginia Company of London in 1607?
a)
Jamestown
b)
Plymouth
c)
James City
d)
Powhatan
5.

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?

a)

The Starving Time

b)

The Good Old Days

6.

Jamestown was an economic venture. King James wanted the settlers to find what for England?

a)

jewels, metal, and paper

b)

gold, silver, timber, and iron

c)

spices, water, and technology

d)

timber, gold, and diamonds

7.

What was the name of the group of men who were financially investing in the colony?

a)

King James Industries

b)

Captain Smith and Sons

c)

The Virginia Company of London

d)

The Jamestown Initiative

8.

What did the settlers name the river they traveled to find their settlement site?

a)

James River

b)

Hudson River

c)

Trinity River

d)

Brazos River

9.

The settlers started getting sick. What caused the sickness?

a)

Brackish water

b)

bug bites

c)

diseases

d)

all of the above

10.

Who was John Smith

a)

leader of the new colony

b)

travel guide of the new found land

c)

banker from London

d)

farmer

11.

The winter of 1609-1610 became know as the

a)

early voting season

b)

wedding season

c)

starving time

d)

white winter

12.

Who did John Rolfe marry?

a)

Powhatan

b)

Sacagawea

c)

Clara Sherman

d)

Pocahontas

13.

What kind of crop grew well around Jamestown and became the colony's first cash crop to England?

a)

tabacco

b)

cotton

c)

corn

d)

rice

14.

The practice of farming.

a)

brackish

b)

agriculture

c)

palisade

d)

cash crop

15.
The site they chose was marshy and lacked safe drinking water, the settlers lacked skills, and many settlers died of disease and starvation. These were:
a)
Problems faced by settlers in the midwest
b)
Hardships faced by the settlers at Jamestown
c)
Hardships placed on the Indians by the settlers
d)
Problems the settlers thought they might have