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Roanoke Jamestown Plymouth Native Americans Colonists 10 20 30 40 50

Question 1 - 10 Who settled Roanoke is 1584?

Answer 1 – 10 Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 1 - 20 Why couldn’t John White return to Roanoke with supplies?

Answer 1 – 20 The Spanish Armada, fighting between England and Spain

Question 1 - 30 Why did the original Roanoke colony fail?

Answer 1 – 30 Food shortage, trouble with the natives

Question 1 - 40 What was carved in the tree at Roanoke?

Answer 1 – 40 CROATOAN

Question 1 - 50 Where is Roanoke located?

Answer 1 – 50 North Carolina

Question 2 - 10 The Jamestown colony was established by ___________.

Answer 2 – 10 The Virginia Company

Question 2 - 20 What did Jamestown do in order to survive?

Answer 2 – 20 Create an alliance with the natives and grow tobacco

Question 2 - 30 2/3 of the Jamestown colonists died the first year. Why was this?

Answer 2 – 30 Built on swamp land, malaria, bad water, looking for gold rather than planting food, troubles with the natives

Question 2 - 40 What law did John Smith institute?

Answer 2 – 40 “He who works not, eats not.”

Question 2 - 50 Who did Pocahontas marry?

Answer 2 – 50 John Rolfe

Question 3 - 10 Why did the Pilgrims leave England?

Answer 3 – 10 They were traitors, they disagreed with the Church of England, they were Separatists

Question 3 - 20 What agreement did the Pilgrims make that all laws would benefit the whole colony?

Answer 3 – 20 The Mayflower Compact

Question 3 - 30 How did the Pilgrims survive the first year?

Answer 3 – 30 Squanto and the Native Americans helped them plant and hunt

Question 3 - 40 This religious group was unhappy the King of England controlled the church of England and believed they could purify the church. What was the name of this religious group?

Answer 3 – 40 Puritans

Question 3 - 50 The Pilgrims first moved to the Netherlands. Why did they choose to move to the Americas?

Answer 3 – 50 They were worried their children were acting too Dutch

Question 4 - 10 What was the name of the tribe Jamestown interacted with?

Answer 4 – 10 The Powhatans

Question 4 - 20 How did Pocahontas help Jamestown survive?

Answer 4 – 20 Introduced tobacco to Jamestown

Question 4 - 30 What was the longest held treaty between American settlers and Native Americans?

Answer 4 – 30 The Pilgrim-Wampanoag Treaty

Question 4 - 40 What do Samoset and Squanto help the Pilgrims with?

Answer 4 – 40 Farming, hunting, translating between the two groups

Question 4 - 50 How will the introduction of tobacco of Jamestown effect the Native Americans in the long run?

Answer 4 – 50 Demand of land to grow tobacco will push Native Americans off their land

Question 5 - 10 Define indentured servant.

Answer 5 – 10 Served for 4-7 years, their contract paid for transportation to the New World, Africans first brought to Jamestown served as indentured servants before becoming slaves

Question 5 - 20 How many acres did immigrants receive in coming to the New World?

Answer 5 – 20 A headright: 50 acres

Question 5 - 30 Why did people choose to immigrate to the New World?

Answer 5 – 30 Religious freedom, political freedom, for a fresh start, financial reasons

Question 5 - 40 Who could vote in the colonies?

Answer 5 – 40 Male property owners

Question 5 - 50 What was the name of the first representative government body in Virginia?

Answer 5 – 50 The House of Burgesses