Social Studies - Plymouth & Jamestown

Question 1

Purpose of Jamestown

Answer 1

The Virginia company of London got a charter and made it for money. Settlers came to become
wealthy from finding raw materials (gold)
Water route to asia
Claim the land for england

Question 2

Successes and Reasons for Success

Answer 2

Problems:
bad location swampy and attracted disease
Rulers were awful and did not plan well
Too focused on getting gold
Bad native american relationship
Colonists were not used to live in the wilderness
Success:
John smith became captain of colony and help organize it
Started growing tobacco a cash crop
Settler married a american indian

Question 3

House of Burgesses

Answer 3

To create more stable government = elected burgess/representative met in a assemble named the House of Burgesses
→ made laws
→ signifies beginning of representative government

Question 4

Pilgrims

Answer 4

A kind of separatist that intended to join jamesTown but their plan took a turn
Religious freedom

Question 5

Successes

Answer 5

Pilgrims arrived late in the year couldn’t plant crops →native americans tough them how to plant crops → thanksgiving

Question 6

The Mayflower Compact

Answer 6

The Mayflower ship landed outside Virginia boundaries therefore they were not governed by anyone. Pilgrims created and made the mayflower compact(a set of laws) that both pilgrims and non pilgrims(strangers) signed. →precedent for future government first time settler work together for success