Question | Answer |
Who financed Jamestown? | The Virginia Company |
Who saved the president from execution? | Pocahontas |
Why did the population of poor increase? | New land restrictions |
What did president John Smith require all colonists to do? | John Smith required all citizens to work and trade with the Algonquins. |
Who was Powhatan? | Powhatan was president John Smith's vassal or servant. She is also the mother of Pocahontas |
Who was Pocahontas? | She was the daughter of Powhatan and saved president John smith from execution. |
Who was John smith? | He was a president and he almost got executed. |
What was a problem with the James Fort? | Did not go far upstream to get away from salt water, and many diseases carrying mosquitoes. |
What are three uses for the new world? | market use,location to send poor,and abundant resources |
What was Great Britain's 1st failed attempt? | To set up permanent colonies in Roanoke. |
What did the English focus on? | The English focused on precious metals and spent little time farming. |
Who discovered the cash crop? | John Rolfe |
What happened to Jamestown during the Starving time? | Bad relations with Algonquians, low food supply, and resort to Cannibalism |