James Town

Question 1

Jamestown was the first ____ English Colony in America

Answer 1

Permanent

Question 2

This began in what year?

Answer 2

1607

Question 3

It was sponsored by who In England?

Answer 3

King James the first

Question 4

Name the three ships

Answer 4

. Susan constant
Godspeed
Discovery

Question 5

How many men were on the boat?

Answer 5

105 and one died at sea

Question 6

The place was in the middle of the territory owned by the Powhatan Indians which caused problems for the settlers

Answer 6

.

Question 7

What were the two goals of the colony?

Answer 7

Finding a lot of gold and silver and discovering the north west passage or (aka a water route to china)

Question 8

What were 4 problems the colony faced

Answer 8

All upperclass English men

English climate is much colder than Pennsylvania and different crops

Came in the middle of the drought
to little food

Bad relations to the local tribe

Question 9

things were going bad for the colony until who took charge?

Answer 9

John smith

Question 10

What policy was passed?

Answer 10

No work no food

Question 11

He got injured and had to go back to England

Answer 11

.

Question 12

Five years later, the colony continued to lose money until who came? What year?

Answer 12

John Rolfe and1613

Question 13

What did he bring with him?

Answer 13

Tobacco which made Jamestown a success

Question 14

John Rolfe later married who?

Answer 14

Pocahontas

Question 15

By the mid 1700s the colony what?

Answer 15

No longer existed

Question 16

They picked to travel up the what and why?

Answer 16

James river and for defensive reasons