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English Settlements in Virginia (1584 - 1699) English Settlements in Virginia (1584 - 1699) Student Name: _______________________________________ Date: ____________________ For each of the following slides/questions, fill-in-the-blanks: Question# Statement(s) 1. The period of English settlements covered in this presentation is from 1584 to __________. 2. Sir Walter __________________ put together the first English exploration and voyage to the environs of Old Virginia in 1584. 3. The first English settlement in Old Virginia was called the ___________ Colony because its settlers disappeared when the colony was visited by Sir Walter Raleigh’s men in 1590. 4. Meat in the diet of Roanoke Indians was most probably ______________ (beef, birds, fish, or sheep). 5. Because of the warm climate at Roanoke, Indians wore _______________ (lots or little) clothing. 6. Roanoke Indian celebrations included ____________________ (dancing, swimming, fishing, hunting). 7.. Jamestown was the 1st ____________________ English settlement in the New World. 8. Jamestown was named after King __________________ of England who chartered entrepreneurs called the Virginia Company. 9 The 1st Jamestown landing occurred on _______________ , ______. 10. The Virginia Company charter encouraged that its entrepreneurs “take great care not to offend the _______________”. 11. The James River channel at Jamestown was __________________ (deep or shallow) so that ships could be tied easily to the shore. 12. England’s arch enemy at the time of Jamestown’s settlement was ________________ (France, Italy, Portugal, Spain). 13. Fort James was a __________________(square, round, triangular) fort. English Settlements in Virginia (1584 - 1699) Response sheet page 2 of 4 Question# Statement(s) 14 The ________________________ (laborers, leaders, or gentlemen) were unprepared for life in the wilderness. 15 Archaeologists are “digging” for artifacts on the original site of _____________________ _________________. 16 The original 104 settlers at Jamestown included all of the following except _____________________ : (Councillor, Preacher, Gentlemen, Carpenter, Blacksmith, Sailor, Barber, Bricklayer, Mason, Tailor, Laborers, Surgeon, Boys, and Women). 17 John Smith, a soldier and leader of the Jamestown settlement often rebuked his men for their failings saying, “no work, no ____________”. 18 Jamestown held the 1st _________________ Assembly in America. 19 John Smith was an English ____________________(nobleman, Lord, Knight, commoner). 20 John Smith was Pocahontas’ __________________(father, brother, husband, friend.) 21 Pocahontas went to England and dressed in ______________ attire. 22 Born in 1595, Pocahontas was about ___________ years old when the English first came to Virginia and began the Jamestown settlement. 23 Pocahontas was a ________________________ (rare, frequent, occasional) visitor to Jamestown. 24 Pocahontas married John Rolfe and had a son named _________________ who was an ancestor of Ellen Wilson the 1st wife of President Woodrow Wilson from Virginia. 25 The main village of the Powhatan Indians was located on the ________________________ (Pamunky, Chesapeake, James) river. English Settlements in Virginia (1584 - 1699) Response sheet page 3 of 4 Question# Statement(s) 26 Chief Powhatan was the _______________________ (highest, favorite, meanest, ugliest) authority of the indigenous tribesmen in the Chesapeake Bay area. 27 Christopher Newport was the _________________ (captain, admiral, navigator, owner) of the fleet of 3 ships that made the 1st landing at Jamestown. 28 The 3 ships that carried settlers to Jamestown in 1607 were named the: _________________ ______________, Godspeed and the Discovery. 29 Edward Maria Wingfield, the 1st governor of Jamestown, was a ____________________ (noble, Lord, Knight, commoner, wealthy man). 30 Governor Wingfield got the Jamestown colony up and running; but, he is blamed for _______________ (excellent, good, poor) management. 31 John Rolfe is best known for saving the Jamestown colony by ______________________ (marrying Pocahontas, raising tobacco, finding fish) in Virginia. 32 The first English women settlers came to Jamestown in_______________. 33 One of the first English women settlers married ____________________ who later was appointed Governor of Virginia in 1618. 34 Opechancanough was a __________________ of Chief Powhatan. 35 Opechancanough lead Indian uprisings against settlers in _____& ______. He was captured and killed by a soldier assigned to guard him. 36 The first settlers that landed at Jamestown included _______ boys. 37 The first settlers at Jamestown were looking for silver, _______________, and a trade route to the Orient. 38 The first settlers found that valuable sassafras & _____________ plants grew well in Virginia English Settlements in Virginia (1584 - 1699) Response sheet page 4 of 4 Question# Statement(s) 39 Tobacco farming is a ______________________, labor intensive industry. 40 In 1607, ____________________________came to Virginia as a servant. 41 The 7-year period of service many settlers contracted for their passage to Virginia was called a period of ________________________. 42 The first African slaves came to Virginia from ________________ . 43 In 1672, the English government chartered the _____________________ ______________ Company to bring slaves from West Africa to Virginia. 44 All of the following except ________________ were problems for the settlers who came to Jamestown in 1607: transportation, cooperation, disease, starvation, Indian attacks. 45 The Virginia Company had all the ingredients they needed to make glass at Jamestown except ____________________. 46 The first settlers at Jamestown ate a lot of ________________ and turtles. 47 During the Winter of 1609-1610, starving settlers ate ________________ (corn, beef, fish, horses, everything). 48 Archaeologists digging at Jamestown have found a little of ____________. 49 The “third supply” of nine ships and 600 immigrants left England bound for Virginia in May of 1608; but, a hurricane sunk one, blew the others off course and they landed on a reef in __________________. 50 Powhatan Indians attacked and killed 347 Jamestown colonists in_______. 51 In 1676, Bacon led south-side Virginians against the Indians and in a final act of rebellion against the administration of Governor Berkeley, his men ___________________ Jamestown to the ground. 52 In 1699, the capitol of Virginia moved to _______________________..
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