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Jamestown
Question | Answer |
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What year was Jamestown founded | 1607 |
Why were they low on food | the supply ship didn't come |
What is Cannibalism | killing people for food |
Where were they located | James River |
What did they trade most | Cash Crops (Tobacco) |
One problem they had was | They put their Fort on a marsh,Which has many mosquitoes that have disease. |
Another problem they had | They didn't go far enough upstream, to get away from the salt water. |
The first successful colony was in | Jamestown, Virginia 1607 where you have 50% chance to survive the first five year |
More interested in | finding gold and silver than in farming |
John Rolfe | who was the colonist to induce the first cash crop of tobacco to Jamestown latter married Pocahontas. |
The first colony of Colonizing | Was Roanoke |
The first attempt they had was successful | was successful |
What is manufactured good | is goods that are ultimately consumed rather than used in the production of another good |
Smith, | serving as president of the Jamestown colony from 1608 to 1609, required the colonists to work and traded with the Indians for food. |
Smith describes | a famous incident in which Powhatan's 12-year-old daughter, Pocahontas (1595?-1617), saved him from execution. |