Question | Answer |
What year was Jamestown founded? | 1607 |
What three reasons did the Europeans want to colonize North America? | Fresh goods, an abundant of natural resources, and as a place to send the poor |
Where was Britain's first to failed attempts located? | Newfoundland and Roanoke |
Where was the first successful colony located? | Jamestown, Virginia 1607 |
Why did the colonists have to rely on a neighboring tribe the Algonquins for food? | Because they spent so much time looking for precious metals instead of getting food |
What was your chance of survival for the first 5 years in Jamestown? | 50% |
What does raw material mean? What about a manufactured good? | A raw material is something that is in it's natural state. A Manufactured good is something that has been changed by a man. |
Who financed the colony? | The Virginia Company |
What tribe was along side the colonists? | The Algonquins |
Who first made colonists work and what happened to the man? | Captain John Smith and he was involved in a gunpowder accident |
What vital role did John Rolfe play? | He introduced the first cash crop, tobacco, and he married Pocahontas |
Why was the location of James fort placed badly? | It wasn't far enough upstream to get away from the salt water, and it was located by a marsh causing disease carrying mosquitoes to be near |
What happened during the starving time of 1608-09? | The colonists were trapped in the fort due to bad relations with the Algonquins so they resorted to cannibalism |