Jamestown
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| When was Jamestown, Virginia colonized? | 1607
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| What was the first successful colony in North America? | Jamestown
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| What did the English hope to find in North America? | Raw materials and a location to send the poor
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| What did the English hope to market to the colonists? | Manufactured goods
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| What indian tribe was near Jamestown? | Algonquian
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| Who was the leader of the Algonquins? | Powhatan
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| Who was the president of Jamestown? | John Smith
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| Who introduced tobacco to the colony of Jamestown? | John Rolfe
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| What was the first cash crop in Jamestown? | Tobacco
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| What was the starving time? | The Starving Time was the winter of 1609-1610 when the colonists at James fort ran out of food and resorted to cannibalism
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| Who did John Rolfe marry? | Pocahontas after she went to England with John Rolfe
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| What was the most famous failed colony? | Roanoke(lost colony)
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| Who financed Jamestown? | The Virginia Company
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| What did the first men at Jamestown do? | Searched for raw materials in vein
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| Who forced the people of Jamestown to work? | John Smith
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| Why did John Smith return to England? | He was involved in a gun powder accident
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| Why did Jon Rolfe and Pocahontas get married? | To try to create a friendship between the Indians and England
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| What were two problems with James Fort? | They didn't go far enough upstream to escape from the salt water and they built the fort in a marsh with disease carrying mosquitoes
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| What happened during the starving time? | 1. The colonists were trapped in the fort due to bad relations with the Algonquins
2. They had a low supply of food because the supply boat never came from England
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