Jamestown Subject Area: Social Studies Grade Level: 5 Sandy McEndree Sedalia Elementary School
Who will survive the English Invasion on Jamestown? SURVIVOR
Jamestown Colony Lesson 1 in the series Focus Question: Who helped the colony of Jamestown survive?
Jamestown is located in Virginia & was established by London merchants. Who was Jamestown named after?
Jamestown Fort
Powhatan Was the Powhatan a group of Native Americans or was this the name of one man?
Powhatan Chief Powhatan –Powerful ruler who united his people –Traded with Jamestown settlers but fought against them
Chief Powhatan in Indian attire
The English London merchants began the Virginia Company which sold shares or ownership in the company English landed in a swampy area that held great danger
The English Why do you think that the English remained in the swampy area after they began to get sick?
Captain John Smith John Smith was an adventurer who helped to save the colonists.
To what other people can you compare the English colonists?
Pocahontas Chief Powhatan’s daughter Do you believe Smith’s account of this event? Why or why not?
Jamestown Colony Focus Question: Who helped the colony of Jamestown survive?
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