Jamestown
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| What year was Jamestown founded? | 1607
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| 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
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| Where was Britain's first to failed attempts located? | Newfoundland and Roanoke
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| Where was the first successful colony located? | Jamestown, Virginia 1607
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| 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
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| What was your chance of survival for the first 5 years in Jamestown? | 50%
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| 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.
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| Who financed the colony? | The Virginia Company
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| What tribe was along side the colonists? | The Algonquins
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| Who first made colonists work and what happened to the man? | Captain John Smith and he was involved in a gunpowder accident
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| What vital role did John Rolfe play? | He introduced the first cash crop, tobacco, and he married Pocahontas
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| 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
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| 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
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