Jamestown unit

Question 1

What is a charter?

Answer 1

An official document that gives a person or company permission to do something (such as settle in an area)

Question 2

What is a colony?

Answer 2

A settlement ruled by another country

Question 3

What does establish mean?

Answer 3

To set up, make, or create

Question 4

What is an economic venture?

Answer 4

A task thats purpose is to make money (money=economics!)

Question 5

What is wealth?

Answer 5

Money, riches

Question 6

What are raw materials?

Answer 6

Any resource that can be used to make a product (wood, wool, furs, spices)

Question 7

What does finance mean?

Answer 7

To pay for

Question 8

What are stockholders?

Answer 8

People who own a share (part) of a company

Question 9

What is self-sustaining agriculture?

Answer 9

Growing enough food to eat and support yourself so you don’t starve

Question 10

Why did England want to establish an American colony?

Answer 10

To increase her wealth and power

Question 11

What two things did England HOPE to find in America?

Answer 11

Gold and silver

Question 12

What two things could an American settlement provide for England? (other than money)

Answer 12

Raw materials

Open new markets for trade

Question 13

Jamestown was primarily (mainly) an ______ _______.

Answer 13

economic venture

Question 14

Who financed the settlement of Jamestown?

Answer 14

The Stockholders of the Virginia Company of London

Question 15

In what year did Jamestown become the first permanent English settlement?

Answer 15

1607

Question 16

Who granted the charters to the Virginia Company of London?

Answer 16

The King of England

Question 17

What are two reasons why the King of England granted charters to the Virginia Company?

Answer 17

To establish a settlement in North America
To extend (give) English rights to the settlers

Question 18

What is a charter?

Answer 18

An official document that gives a company permission to do something. (like settle in an area)

Question 19

When the settlers arrived in 1607, what was Jamestown located on?

Answer 19

A peninsula in the James River

Question 20

Where is Jamestown located today?

Answer 20

On an island in the James River

Question 21

What are the four major reasons why the settlers chose the site for Jamestown?

Answer 21

1. Instructions told the settlers to go inland.
2. The location could easily be defended
   from attack by sea (by Spanish)
3. The water along the shore was deep
   enough for ships to dock.
4. They believed it had a good supply of
   fresh water.

Question 22

What three hardships (problems) did the settlers face?

Answer 22

1. The sites they chose to live on was  
   marshy and lacked safe drinking water.
2. The settlers lacked some skills 
    necessary to provide for themselves.
3. Many settlers died of starvation and 
    disease.

Question 23

What were three changes that resulted in the survival of the colony?

Answer 23

1. The arrival of supply ships.
2. The forced work program and
   strong leadership of Captain
   John Smith.
3. The emphasis (focus) of
   agriculture.

Question 24

What was life like for the colonists at Jamestown?

Answer 24

• life was harder than they expected

Question 25

What was the forced work program?

Answer 25

A program that forced everyone to work, not just the lower class people.

Question 26

Who helped the colony to survive with his strong leadership and forced work program, and said, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat!”

Answer 26

Captain John Smith

Question 27

Who initiated (started) trading relationships with the native people (Indians)?

Answer 27

Captain John Smith

Question 28

What three things did the native people have to trade with the English?

Answer 28

Food, furs, leather

Question 29

What four things did the English have to trade with the natives?

Answer 29

Tools, pots, guns, copper for jewelry

Question 30

What group of people helped the settlers at Jamestown to survive?

Answer 30

The native people (American Indians)

Question 31

How did Powhatan, chief of many tribes, contribute to the survival of the settlers?

Answer 31

Provided leadership and taught the settlers survival skills

Question 32

How did Pocahontas contribute to the survival of the Jamestown settlers?

Answer 32

She served as a contact (middle person) between the natives and the English settlers

Question 33

What did the native people teach the English to plant that helped them to survive?

Answer 33

corn and tobacco

Question 34

As the natives began to realize that the English settlements would continue to grow, how did they to view the settlers?

Answer 34

as invaders who would take over their land