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Jamestown
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where was the first successful colony? | Jamestown |
| What year was the first successful colony in Jamestown, Virginia? | 1607 |
| Who was the president of Jamestown, and was well versed in outdoor living and farming? | John Smith |
| what did Great Britain use North America for? | as a market for their manufactured goods and a location to send their poor. |
| Who financed Jamestown? | The Virginia Company |
| Who lived in the region and was ruled by Powhatan? | The Algonquin Indians |
| What did the English focus most on? | precious metals |
| Who was involved in a gun powder accident? | John Smith |
| Who introduced the first cash crop, tobacco? | John Rolfe |
| Who was the man who married Pocahontas? | John Rolfe |
| What was the two problems with the location of the James Fort? | They didn't go far enough upstream to get away from the salt water. Many disease came from mosquitoes |
| What happened to the colonists because of bad relations with Algonquin? | Colonists were trapped in James Fort. |
| What happened to the supply boat? | The supply boat never came and the people in Jamestown had low food supply. |
| What happened to the people in the James Fort when they had low food supply? | The people ended up resorting to cannibalism. |