1. Jamestown
Review
U.S. History
Unit 1
SSUSH1a

2. Who?
Who settled there? English colonists, looking for economic opportunity
Who were the leaders? House of Burgesses (legislative body), royal governor, and the king
Who were their neighbors? The Powhatan

3. What?
What type of colony was Jamestown at first? A charter or proprietary colony
What type of colony did it become? A royal colony (the king took away the Virginia Company’s charter)

4. When? When did settlers arrive? 1607
When was “starving time”?
Side Note: What was “starving time”?

5. Why?
Why did settlers come to Jamestown? They were looking for gold (economic opportunity)
Why did people support them? They wanted a profit (the investors in the Virginia Company)
Why did Jamestown almost fail? The first settlers were not prepared for not finding gold, they had no way to support themselves

6. Where?
Where is Jamestown located? Virginia

7. How?
How did Jamestown survive? Tobacco

8. Review Game

9. What makes Jamestown a good example of a southern colony?

10. Why was tobacco so important to the Jamestown colony?

11. Why did the success of tobacco cause tension between the colonists and the Native Americans?

12. When the colony began, what group did most of the labor?

13. Why did indentured servants eventually get replaced by slaves?

14. How was the Jamestown colony governed
How was the Jamestown colony governed? (Include all types of government)

15. Why was the House of Burgesses so important?

16. What was the relationship between the colonists and the Powhatan like?

17. Why did this relationship usually turn violent?

18. What caused Bacon’s Rebellion?

19. What does Bacon’s Rebellion show about what early Americans expected from their government?