Jamestown Quiz

Question 1

privateer

Answer 1

also known as “sea dogs”; privately owned ships hired by a government to attack foreign ships

Question 2

charter

Answer 2

certificate of permission

Question 3

joint stock company

Answer 3

a company funded and run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits and losses

Question 4

royal colony

Answer 4

a governor appointed by the king

Question 5

legislature

Answer 5

lawmaking assembly

Question 6

house of burgesses

Answer 6

legislative made up of representatives from the colony

Question 7

indentured servant

Answer 7

people who had to work for a master for a period of time, usually seven years, under a contract called an indenture

Question 8

bacons rebellion

Answer 8

revolt in 1676 by Virginia’s colonists against the royal governor

Question 9

what challenges did they face in settling where they did

Answer 9

they were near a swamp which was infested with disease-bearing mosquitos; they settled near native americans which ended up being bad

Question 10

what were the two civilizations that had a joint stock company

Answer 10

London company (Virginia company) plymouth company

Question 11

what year did they come over

Answer 11

1607

Question 12

how many men were there and how many ships did they take

Answer 12

144 and three ships

Question 13

what were the three ships names

Answer 13

god sped
discover
susan constant

Question 14

what was the tribe that was located just outside the settlers of jamestown

Answer 14

Powhatan

Question 15

who was a famous powhatan

Answer 15

Pocahontas

Question 16

who was the guy that saved everything for jamestown

Answer 16

john smith

Question 17

what year did john smith come

Answer 17

1608

Question 18

what were most of the settlers in jamestown interests

Answer 18

to find gold and get rich, not to do all the work that had to be done to be successful

Question 19

what did john smith say about the people that only wanted gold

Answer 19

if they didn’t build and work then they couldn’t eat

Question 20

what happened to smith

Answer 20

he got hurt in a gunpowder incident and was forced to go back to england

Question 21

what happened when smith left

Answer 21

everything went back into chaos

Question 22

what was 1609-1610 known as

Answer 22

the starving time

Question 23

what were some of the things they had to eat in order to stay alive

Answer 23

snakes
boot leather
worms
rats
dug up corpses

Question 24

who was smiths replacement

Answer 24

Lord de la Ware

Question 25

how did de la ware come over

Answer 25

on the ship of about 60 men that was ran aground coming form england

Question 26

what did de la ware come with

Answer 26

he came with supplies which helped the settlement stay on its feet

Question 27

what did de la ware to do the people that were already there

Answer 27

he convinced them to stay because of the supplies that he brought

Question 28

what was the major crop that the settlement had

Answer 28

tobacco

Question 29

who brought over the tobacco and in what year

Answer 29

John Rolfe in 1612

Question 30

what was needed for all the tobacco

Answer 30

a lot of land and workers

Question 31

what did they do in order to get all of the land

Answer 31

they expanded westward into Virginia, and eastward down the james river

Question 32

how were they able to get people to work on the land with tobacco

Answer 32

they developed the head right system

Question 33

head right system

Answer 33

every person that went over to help was given 50 acres of land

Question 34

what happened if the people that came over convinced others to come

Answer 34

the "add-ons" would get their own 50 acres of land and the person that convinced them to come would get an additional 50 acres for themselves;a total of 100 acres

Question 35

what did England also send over to help the economy

Answer 35

other craftsmen to diversity the economy

Question 36

what people were sent over and when

Answer 36

100 women and children in 1619

Question 37

what was developed in 1619

Answer 37

the house of burgesses

Question 38

what was the house of burgesses an example of

Answer 38

the first representative government in the America's

Question 39

who also came over in 1619

Answer 39

african amerians

Question 40

what were the africans known as at first

Answer 40

indentured servants; not slaves.... yet

Question 41

how did the people farm all of their 50 acres

Answer 41

themselves along with the native americans that were forced to work

Question 42

how did working the native americans work out

Answer 42

not good

Question 43

why didn't the native americans work out

Answer 43

they were not used to the intense labor, the climate, and having to endure everything else that came with it

Question 44

when it didn't work out with the native americans, what did they resort to

Answer 44

the africans; this was how slavery began in our country