1. Jamestown Jeopardy!

2. Which country wanted to increase their wealth and power by building a colony in Jamestown?

3. England

4. What is the term for the resources that England wanted Jamestown to furnish for them?

5. Raw materials

6. What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in America?

7. Jamestown

8. Name the three reasons why the settlers picked the site they built Jamestown on.

9. Easy defense, deep shore (a good harbor), fresh water.

10. What year did they start building Jamestown?

11. 1607

12. What does the term peninsula have to do with Jamestown?

13. Jamestown was built on a peninsula in the James River.

14. How did the king give the Virginia Company the right to establish Jamestown?

15. By granting a charter.

16. What is the name of the king who granted the charter?

17. King James I

18. Who were the only people allowed to be Burgesses?

19. Adult White Men (landowners)

20. What was the name of America’s first elected legislative body?

21. Virginia Assembly

22. What year did the Virginia Assembly first meet?

23. 1619

24. In the Virginia Assembly, two citizen representatives were chosen from each area of Virginia. What were these people called?

25. Burgesses

26. What organization, created after the Virginia Assembly, first gave citizens the opportunity to control their own government?

27. House of Burgesses

28. What people arrived, against their will, in America, making it possible to grow more tobacco?

29. Africans

30. What people arrived in 1620, making Jamestown a better place to live?

31. Women

32. What type of person worked for 5 – 7 years, and then could become free?

33. Indentured servants

34. What did the Jamestown settlers first think the Africans were that made them treat them differently?

35. Baptized Christians

36. Out of all the reasons the Jamestown settlers died, what were two most common reasons?

37. Starvation and disease

38. Who first saved Jamestown?

39. Captain John Smith

40. What does self-sustaining agriculture mean?

41. Growing your own crops.

42. What were the three hardships that the settlers first experienced at Jamestown?

43. Bad drinking water, the gentleman would not work, marshy land & mosquitoes

44. How did the Powhatans feel when they realized the settlers were taking over their land?

45. Angry (it actually changed their relationship)

46. What three things did the Jamestown settlers trade with the Powhatans?

47. Tools, pots, and guns

48. What are three things the Powhatans traded with the settlers?

49. Food, furs, and leather

50. Who first started trading with the Powhatans?

51. Captain John Smith

52. Which Indian was the most friendly with the settlers?

53. Pocahontas

54. Final Jeopardy!

55. What are the names of the first three ships that sailed from England to Jamestown?

56. Susan Constant, Discovery and the Godspeed