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Jamestown
Question | Answer |
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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. |