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Jamestown
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What year was Jamestown founded? | 1607 |
| What was America being used for by England? | Raw materials, location to sell manufactured goods, and a location to send the poor. |
| What were the two first failed colonies? | Roanoke and Newfoundland |
| What was the Virginia Company looking for? | Precious Metals |
| What were the native tribe next to Jamestown called? | Algonqiuan |
| Why did the colonists have to eat vermin and possibly even resort to cannibalism? | The Algonquian cut off they're food supply. |
| Who made the colonists trade partners with the Algonquian? | Captain John Smith |
| Why did John Smith leave? | A gunpowder accident |
| Who introduced the first cash crop, tobacco? | John Rolfe |
| When was the starving time? | 1608-1610 |
| What is a raw material? | Something in it's natural state |
| What is a manufactured good? | A good made from a raw material used to make profit. |
| Who financed Jamestown? | The Virginia Company |
| Who ruled the Algonquian? | Powhatan |
| What were problems during the starving time? | - Colonists trapped in James Fort due to bad relations with the Algonquian. - Low food supply because the supply boat never comes - Disease rate is high - Cold winter - Resort to cannibalism |
| What was wrong with James Fort's location? | *James River Problem: They didn’t go far enough up stream to get away from the salt water *Marsh: Many disease carrying mosquitoes |
| Why did John Rolfe probably marry Pocahontas? | To form an alliance. |
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