1. Chapter 6 Jeopardy Early Settlements

2. Early Settlements Jeopardy InfoPlymouthRoanokeJamestown 100 200 300 400 500 600

3. Small communities that are started in a new place. What are settlements?

4. Who are colonists? People who settle in colonies

5. A plant whose leaves are dried and turned into material for smoking, sniffing, or chewing. It was helpful in the success of Jamestown? What is tobacco?

6. What is the river located at the star? What is the St. Lawrence River?

7. What is the colony located at the star? What is Jamestown?

8. What is the colony located at the star? What is Plymouth?

9. Why was the settlement of Plymouth started? What is religious freedom?

10. What was the agreement the Pilgrims signed that allowed them to live peacefully together? What is the Mayflower Compact?

11. The first winter for the Pilgrims was difficult. Why did so many of them die? What is cold and harsh climate and they landed too late to plant crops?

12. Who helped the Pilgrims plant corn, catch fish, and get sweet syrup from maple trees? Who is Squanto?

13. What present day state was Plymouth located in? What is Massachusetts?

14. Name two reasons the settlers at Plymouth left Europe. What is religious freedom and what is a separate church from the Church of England?

15. Name the first settlement in the New World. What is Roanoke?

16. Roanoke is known as… What is the ‘lost colony’?

17. When John White returned from England and all the settlers had disappeared, what was the word carved on a gatepost? What is CROATOAN?

18. Roanoke is located off the coast of what present day state? What is North Carolina

19. Why couldn’t John White get back to Roanoke right away with supplies? What is England was fighting a war with Spain?

20. What country sent a group of men to start a colony in Roanoke? What is England?

21. Who was Jamestown named in honor of? Who is King James?

22. What present day state is Jamestown in? What is Virginia?

23. What were the settlers hoping to find in the colony? What is finding natural riches like gold or making money.

24. What is known as ‘Virginia’s gold’ and brought settlers to Jamestown? What is tobacco?

25. There were several reasons for Jamestown not surviving the first few months. List them. What is they built it on a marsh, the water was dirty and salty, and mosquitoes carried a disease called malaria?

26. 1609-1910 was known as ‘Starving Time.’ What were the settlers forced to do during this time? What is they were forced to eat horses and dogs?