JAMESTOWN
Video Questions
Jamestown
America: The Story of Us
00:00 - 8:12
1. What does America have that the settlers hoped to get?
2. What changed Jamestown from “hell-on-earth” to a boomtown?
Differences between English and Spanish Exploration:
Spain
England
Geography:
Geography:
Food:
Food:
Government:
Government:
I.
Jamestown was north / south of the failed colony of Roanoke. (circle the correct word)
II. The Virginia Company of London was a ______________-__________________
company, where investors buy stock in a company for a share of the profits.
III. The James River and Jamestown were named after ___________ ________________ __.
IV. Colonists of Jamestown hoped to find _____________ and a route to _______________.
V. The fort at Jamestown was built in the shape of a _________________________ for
easier defense.
VI. John Smith helped Jamestown survive by befriending the _____________________
Indians, and trading for corn and other necessary supplies.
VII. John Smith was quoted as saying “He that will not ____________________,
neither shall he __________________.
VIII. The winter of ________ to __________ was known as the _________________ Time.
1. 2. 3. THREE FACTS ABOUT POCAHONTAS
IX. John Rolfe is best known for marrying _____________________ and developing the
___________________ crop, which helped fund the colony and became the number one
crop of ________________________ for many generations to come.
Three lasting problems of the Jamestown settlement & the Virginia Colony:
1.
2.
3.
Match the contributing factor that led to Virginia’s success with the descriptions below:
(S) social
___ The creation of the law making body, The House of Burgesses
(P) political
___ Land was used as an incentive to attract settlers
(R) religious
___ The cultivation of tobacco
(I) intellectual
___ Migrations of both Catholics and Protestants to different colonies
(T) technology
___ The creation of sea bases against other countries
(E) economic
___ A place to send the undesirables of England