Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth Flashcards
True or false? Roanoke is known as the lost colony.
True
True or false? The first ENGLISH child born in North America lived in ROANOKE.
True
True or false? Roanoke was the first PERMANENT English colony.
False
True or false? The settlers of Roanoke were hoping to find gold.
True
What are the theories about what happened to the settlement of Roanoke?
The settlers moved to Croatoan Island, American Indians attacked and destroyed it, and the settlers became part of the Croatoan tribe.
Which company was the first company to settle in Jamestown?
Virginia Company
What happened when the Jamestown settlers first arrived to the Americas?
They were attacked by the natives and traveled upriver to settle somewhere else.
Children/young people who paid for their passage to the New World by working for a certain number of years to pay off their debt=?
Indentured servants
How many settlers survived the starving time of Jamestown out of the 500 that settled there?
Less than half of them; 60 people.
The crop that John Rolfe and Pocahontas experimented with that became the first profitable export for Virginia Co=?
Tobacco
Describe the location of Jamestown.
Uninhabited, lack of fresh water, defensible, and swampland.
True or false? John White created the no work, no eat policy.
False
Who created the no work, no eat policy?
John Smith
Did the no work, no eat policy last long? Why or why not?
No because John Smith left Jamestown.
What did the no work, no eat policy say?
That those who didn’t do manual labor did not get to eat.
Was anybody mad about the no work, no eat policy?
Yes, English Gentlemen were.
Who were English Gentlemen?
People that ordered people around and refused to work; they just wanted gold.
Which group believed God chose them to reform, or PURIFY, the Church of England from within?
Puritans
Which group believed violence was never the way to solve problems and believed that people should be free to believe what they wanted and pray in their own way?
Quakers
Which group made a PILGRIMAGE to the new world for religious freedom?
Pilgrims
Which group believed the Church of England was beyond redemption and that they needed to break away, or SEPARATE, from the Church to practice their beliefs?
Separatists
Who had the first thanksgiving with Chief Massasoit?
Pilgrims
