Jamestown Flashcards
A settlement is
A colony or small community of people
What year did the first settlers reach Jamestown
1607
How many ships sailed from London
3
How many months did it take them to sail to the New World
4
Who chartered (paid for) the settlers to go to the New World?
Virginia Company of London
What did the settlers build for protection?
A triangular shaped fort
What did they build around their fort?
A palisade which is a wood fence
Instead of searching for food what did the settlers want to find?
Gold
Their lack of basic __________ ______ made the first few years very difficult.
survival skills
Who were the native people?
The Powhatan Indians
Who was John Smith?
The leader of the English settlers
Who made the rule “if you don’t work, you don’t eat”
John Smith
What did John Smith do when he was injured in 1609?
He sailed back to England
What was the “starving time”?
The winter after John Smith left only 60 of the 500 settlers survived, the rest died from starvation
What is a “cash crop”
When you plant food or plants and can sell them to make money
The settlers then planted what plant that they were able to sell and help the colony grow?
Tobacco
How did the Powhatan Indians help the English settlers ?
They traded goods and food with each other and taught the settlers how to hunt and plant food
When the settlers picked a spot to land was it a good spot?
No in the summer it was swamp full of mosquitoes and in the winter it was unprotected from the weather and very cold
Why did they name their town Jamestown?
It was named after King James I
Jamestown was the first ______________
Permanent English Settlement in North America
