click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Jamestown
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Great Britain realized that the new world could be used for its what? | abundant natural resources, also as a market for their manufactured goods and a location to send their poor. |
| Many common people got forced to become what? | wage laborers, or else to support themselves hand to mouth or simply as beggars. |
| .Great Britain had failed attempts to set up permanent colonies in where? | Newfoundland and Roanoke. |
| The Virginia Company financed Jamestown in the hopes of finding what? | precious metals. |
| .John Rolfe who was the colonists to introduce the first cash crop of what? | tobacco to Jamestown latter married Pocahontas. |
| Smith, serving as president of the Jamestown colony from when? | 1608 to 1609 |
| Colonists trapped in James Fort due to bad relations -Low food supplies -Disease rate is high -Cold winter resorted to what? | cannibalism |
| John Smith gives an account of being saved by Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas but many believe this is a what? | fabricated story. |
| Smith, serving as president of the Jamestown colony from 1608 to 1609, required the colonist to work and trade with the indians for what? | food. |
| England established its first permanent North American settlement in Jamestown when? | 1607. |