Question | Answer |
Who came over to jamestown and made all the colonists work for their food? | John Smith |
What was the first successful colony? | Jamestown |
Who financed the voyage? | the Virginia Company of London |
The english wanted to colonize north America because? | Place to send their poor and natural resources and get natural resources make them better and resell them. |
Result of the poor increasing rapidly? | Forced to become wage laborers or become beggars |
When was Jamestown established? | 1607 |
Britain had two failed attempts which were? | Roanoke and Newfoundland |
Who lived in Jamestown before the British? | the Algonquian Indians |
Who ruled the Algonquian Indians? | Powhatan |
Food sources became a problem because? | They didn't farm and powhatan cut off their food supply. |
Why did John Smith return to England? | He had a gunpowder accident |
Who did Pocahontas marry? | John Rolfe |
What was virginia cash crop and who introduced it? | Tobacco and John Rolfe |
James River problems? | Did not get far away enough from salt water and bugs carried diseases |
Reasons for starving time? | Low food supply trapped in Fort due to bad relations with Algonquians resort to cannibalism |