History Vocabulary 5th and 6th grade Middle School

History

Jamestown – Social Studies    5/23/05

The First Colony – Jamestown - 1607

1.          What company was given a charter, legal permission, by English King James I in 1606 to settle a colony in Virginia?

2.          How many settlers sailed on the first ship?

3.          When did they land at Jamestown Island?

4.          What famous bay is Jamestown close to?

5.          Why did they land and anchor where they did?

6.          Why would they build a fort away from the sea channel?

7.          What native group attacked them almost immediately?

8.          What material was the original fort made from?

9.          What shape was the original fort?

10.     What buildings were inside the fort?

11.     What three things killed off many of the settlers?

12.     What did the settlers have that the Algonquians wanted?

13.     What did the Algonquians have that the settlers needed?

14.     Who’s leadership kept the colony together?

15.     What did the settlers call the winter after Captain John Smith left in 1609?

16.     How many of the original 214 settlers in 1609 survived the bad winter?

17.     What were the few remaining survivors planning to do?

18.     What kept the colony and the settlers alive?

19.     Who was Pocahontas?

20.     Who did Pocahontas marry?