Jamestown: Fact Or Fiction

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Jamestown: Fact or Fiction Instructions: Read the statement and determine if it is fact or fiction by putting an X in the appropriate box

Statement Fact Fiction

1) John Smith and Pocahontas were in love

2) The Jamestown colony was founded in the year 1607

3) The Jamestown colony was the first permanent English colony in the New World.

4) Pocahontas often talked to a talking tree named “Grandmother Willow”

5) When John Smith arrived at Jamestown he was very popular and respected.

6) When John Smith arrived at Jamestown he was to be executed

7) The Jamestown colonist and the Powhatan Indians always got along well. Statement Fact Fiction

8) The Jamestown colonist did not have enough clean water or food.

9) Pocahontas married a Englishman named John Rolfe

10) The Jamestown colonist brought three ships with them to Jamestown

11) Pocahontas could speak English when she met John Smith for the first time

12) The Indians introduced corn and tobacco to the English

13) John Smith was accidently shot by John Ratcliff and had to go back to England for medical treatment

14) The Jamestown colony was named after the King of England