Boom Country

Question 1

What founded Jamestown?

Answer 1

Chesapeake Bay founded Jamestown.

Question 2

Why was Potosi the biggest settlement?

Answer 2

Potosi was the biggest settlement in the Americas by 1620 because it sat on a mountain of silver.

Question 3

What drink did the Europeans learn to savor quickly?

Answer 3

The Turks called it Kahve; the Dutch(who learned of it from the Turks) called it Koffie.

Question 4

What were the special places the English created to drink kahve?

Answer 4

The English created special places to drink it called coffeehouses.

Question 5

What did the Puritan poet write about coffee?

Answer 5

Puritan said “coffee arrives, that grave and wholesome liquor,/that heals the stomach, makes the genius quicker.”

Question 6

Who could afford sugar during the middle ages?

Answer 6

Sugar was so scarce that only wealthy lords and ladies could afford it.

Question 7

Where was the prime sugar regions?

Answer 7

South America and the Caribbean became prime sugar regions.

Question 8

Where was sugarcane grown and where were they sending it?

Answer 8

Sugarcane was grown on large farms called plantations in the Americas were sending thousands of tons of sugar and molasses to Europe.

Question 9

How many colonists were sent to Chesapeake Bay to settle in 1607?

Answer 9

The new Virginia Company sent 105 colonists to settle on Chesapeake Bay in 1607.

Question 10

What were the colonists dying from?

Answer 10

Many colonists dying from “burning fevers.”

Question 11

What would happen to the colonists if they didn’t eat according to Smith?

Answer 11

He wouldn’t allow colonists who didn’t pull their weight to eat.

Question 12

Who was made prisoner by the indians?

Answer 12

Smith was taken prisoner by Indians.

Question 13

How many Native Americans lived around Chesapeake Bay?

Answer 13

Some twenty thousand Native Americans lived around Chesapeake Bay.

Question 14

Who were the Native Americans being held together by?

Answer 14

Held together in a loose confederation by a chief named Powhatan.

Question 15

What burned Smith ?

Answer 15

One night as he slept, a sack of gunpowder caught fire and exploded, badly burning him.

Question 16

What crop did the Virginians need to set their colony booming?

Answer 16

They had been planted as a crop called tobacco.

Question 17

What were you suppose to do during the summer?

Answer 17

During the hot summer, weed the plants constantly and pick off the worms that eat tobacco leaves.

Question 18

What were you suppose to do to the leaves?

Answer 18

In August pick the leaves and hang them up to dry. Finally, when the leaves are seasoned, pack them into large barrels, roll them down to the river, and ship them to England.

Question 19

What were the odds of bringing in money as to working on a farm?

Answer 19

The crop brought in five to ten times as much money as working on an English farm.

Question 20

Why was the tobacco boom on?

Answer 20

Suppose you brought over ten or twenty servants to work for you? That’s ten or twenty times the profit. Thousands of people began to pour into Virginia. The tobacco boom was on.

Question 21

What was the name of what newcomers would face in the colony?

Answer 21

Virginians had a name for what newcomers faced in their first year in the colony: “the seasoning.”

Question 22

Why did newcomers die in large numbers?

Answer 22

Newcomers died in large numbers from malaria spread by mosquitoes.

Question 23

What years did colonists die at great rates?

Answer 23

Even in the 1630s, 1640s, and 1650s colonists died at great rates.

Question 24

What was the average age of English in Virginia?

Answer 24

On average, the English who came to Virginia lived to be only thirty-five or forty.

Question 25

What was the average of English in England?

Answer 25

Someone who stayed in England, on the other hand, could expect to live to about sixty. And in New England, settlers lived to an average age of seventy.