5th - SS Chapter 5 Lesson 1

Question 0

What is a share in a company?

Answer 0

Stock

Question 1

What is a document that permitted colonists to settle on land?

Answer 1

Charter

Question 2

What is a crop grown for a profit?

Answer 2

Cast crop

Question 3

What is a person who agreed to work for another person in exchange for the cost of the ocean voyage to North America called?

Answer 3

Indentured servant

Question 4

What was the first law-making body in the English colonies called?

Answer 4

House of Burgesses

Question 5

What were the English leaders hoping to find when they decided to establish their own colonies in the Americas?

Answer 5

They were hoping to find gold and other natural resources.

Question 6

Where was the first English colony set up?

Answer 6

Roanoke Island

Question 7

What was the first English colony called? Why?

Answer 7

It was called Roanoke or “The Lost Colony” because no one knows what happen to the colonists.

Question 8

Who established the colony of Roanoke in 1587?

Answer 8

John White

Question 9

Describe the settlement of Roanoke.

Answer 9

John White brought a group of 100 settlers to Roanoke but they struggled. When the supplies ran out, White returned to England for help but when he got there England was at war with Spain. It was three years before White could return and when he did he found that everyone had disappeared.

Question 10

What does the Spanish word Armada mean?

Answer 10

Fleet of warships

Question 11

Who was Francis Drake?

Answer 11

A famous English captain who was known for raiding Spanish warships.

Question 12

Who started the Battle is the Spanish Armada? And when?

Answer 12

In 1588, the Spanish decided to attack England in what became know as the Battle of the Spanish Aramada.

Question 13

What advantages did the English have over the Spanish in the Battle of the Spanish Armada?

Answer 13

1. English ships were smaller and could move faster in the water.
2. The English had more powerful guns.

Question 14

Who won the Battle of Spanish Armada?

Answer 14

The English. This major victory helped make England one of the world’s most powerful nations.

Question 15

What company was formed to set up a colony in North America?

Answer 15

The Virginia Company

Question 16

How did the owners of the Virginia Company raise money to build their new colony?

Answer 16

They raised money by selling stock, or shares in the company. Each person who bought stock would earn a profit if the colony was successful.

Question 17

What was the named of the colony that the Virginia Company established in 1607? And where was it?

Answer 17

The colony was called Jamestown. It was located on the eastern coast of Virginia on a peninsula on the James River.

Question 18

Who was John Smith?

Answer 18

He was one of the settlers and a leader of the Jamestown Colony.

Question 19

Was Jamestown “a fit place for erecting a great city?”

Answer 19

No, the land was low and swampy, the air was full of disease-carrying mosquitoes and the water was unhealthy.

Question 20

What began happening to the settlers?

Answer 20

Almost as soon as they arrived, many began to die.

Question 21

What did John Smith, as the leader of Jamestown, make the colonists do?

Answer 21

Build houses, dig wells, plant crops, and fish.

Question 22

What happened to Jamestown once Smith returned to England in 1609?

Answer 22

The colony suffered without his leadership. So many people died of hunger that this period became known as the “starving time.”

Question 23

What were the main causes of hardship at Jamestown before John Smith took over leadership of the colony?

Answer 23

The main cause for hardship during that time were that the settlers were spending all their time searching for gold instead of planting crops and building houses.

Question 24

What was Virginia’s first cash crop?

Answer 24

Tobacco

Question 25

Who was one of the first settlers to raise tobacco in Virginia?

Answer 25

John Rolfe

Question 26

As the tobacco exports to England increased, the tobacco farms needed more workers. Who were these workers?

Answer 26

Indentured servants

Question 27

Summarize the importance of tobacco in Jamestown.

Answer 27

Tobacco became Virginia’s first cash crop. It brought money and people to the colony. So in spite of the hardships, Jamestown grew steadily.

Question 28

What helped maintain peace between the English and the Powhatan people in 1614?

Answer 28

The marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas

Question 29

Who was Pocahontas?

Answer 29

The daughter of the Chief Powhatan

Question 30

In order to attract more settlers to Jamestown, the Virginia Company did what?

Answer 30

They set up the House of Burgesses, the first law-making assembly in an English colony.

Question 31

What did the House of Burgesses do?

Answer 31

They began the tradition of self government in the English colonies.