Jamestown and the First Virginians

Mrs. Hammersley's 4th Grade

How many of these questions can you answer about the first permanent settlement at Jamestown?
The answers are at the end of each question. Highlight the area just after the word Answer with the cursor.
1. What was the origin of the first settlers to Jamestown?
Answer:England

2. What was the first form of self-government in the Virginia colony?
Answer:House of Burgesses

3. Name the company that sold shares of stock to establish a profit-making venture in the Jamestown community?
Answer:Virginia Company of London

4. What large Indian confederation was located in the Costal Plain (Tidewater) Region?
Answer:Powhatan

5. What was the origin of slaves who were brought to the Virginia colony?
Answer:Africa

6. What was known as "green gold" and used as money?
Answer:tobacco

7. What is the land that is settled far from the country that governs it called?
Answer:colony

8. What does the Indian word Chesapeake mean?
Answer:"great salt water"

9. What year did the English colonists first settle at Jamestown?
Answer:1607

10. What three events took place in the Virginia colony in 1619?
Answer:1. first women arrived, 2. House of Burgesses (self-government), 3. first indentured servants arrived

11. What was the event called when western farmers rebelled against the colonial government?
Answer:Bacon's Rebellion

12. What was the "Red Letter Year"?
Answer:1619