Jamestown Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
When was Jamestown, Virginia colonized? | 1607 |
What was the first successful colony in North America? | Jamestown |
What did the English hope to find in North America? | Raw materials and a location to send the poor |
What did the English hope to market to the colonists? | Manufactured goods |
What indian tribe was near Jamestown? | Algonquian |
Who was the leader of the Algonquins? | Powhatan |
Who was the president of Jamestown? | John Smith |
Who introduced tobacco to the colony of Jamestown? | John Rolfe |
What was the first cash crop in Jamestown? | Tobacco |
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 |
Who did John Rolfe marry? | Pocahontas after she went to England with John Rolfe |
What was the most famous failed colony? | Roanoke(lost colony) |
Who financed Jamestown? | The Virginia Company |
What did the first men at Jamestown do? | Searched for raw materials in vein |
Who forced the people of Jamestown to work? | John Smith |
Why did John Smith return to England? | He was involved in a gun powder accident |
Why did Jon Rolfe and Pocahontas get married? | To try to create a friendship between the Indians and England |
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 |
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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