Jamestown

Question 1

Who/what settled Jamestown?

Answer 1

Virginia Company of London

Question 2

When did the voyage to Jamestown start?

Answer 2

December, 1606

Question 3

How many settlers/ships decided to leave England to settle in Jamestown?

Answer 3

144 settlers, 3 ships

Question 4

What were the people seeking?

Answer 4

gold, fish, fur trade

Question 5

How many settlers died on the voyage to Jamestown?

Answer 5

40

Question 6

When did the settlers arrive in Jamestown?

Answer 6

April, 1607

Question 7

What was Jamestown (physically)?

Answer 7

A peninsula; they chose this for defense purposes

Question 8

What were the physical features of Jamestown?

Answer 8

Swamps, mosquitos (malaria), bad farmland

Question 9

How many colonists were remaining after the supply ships arrived in 1608?

Answer 9

38

Question 10

Who revived the colony?

Answer 10

John Smith

Question 11

What did John Smith do to save the colony?

Answer 11

Forced the settlers to work

Question 12

How many settlers arrived in 1609?

Answer 12

400

Question 13

What happened when John Smith returned to England?

Answer 13

lack of leadership, fighting with the indians

Question 14

How many survivors remained in Spring after Smith left?

Answer 14

60

Question 15

Who started planting tobacco?

Answer 15

John Rolfe

Question 16

When was the first crop sold to England?

Answer 16

1614

Question 17

Who did Pocahontas marry?

Answer 17

John Rolfe

Question 18

What was a headright?

Answer 18

50 acres of land given to a settler who paid their own way to America

Question 19

What year did the Virginia Company allow Jamestown to have their own government?

Answer 19

1619

Question 20

What was Jamestown’s government called?

Answer 20

House of Burgesses

Question 21

How many women were sent to Jamestown in 1619?

Answer 21

90 women; hoping to build families

Question 22

What did the men have to pay to marry one of the women sent in 1619?

Answer 22

120 pounds of tobacco

Question 23

When did slavery become a law?

Answer 23

Virginia; 1660’s

Question 24

When did Jamestown become the first royal colony of England?

Answer 24

1624

Question 25

What are Puritans?

Answer 25

Protestants who wanted to change or reform the Anglican Church

Question 26

What are Separatists?

Answer 26

Protestants who wanted to completely separate from the Anglican Church

Question 27

What was the agreement that the Separatists made with the Virginia Company?

Answer 27

they could settle in VA and practice their religion freely. Pilgrims.