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Topic 1
Question for 5 Points
This reason for moving to Jamestown or another
American colony is shiny and usually requires
diggingShow Answer
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Answer for 5 Points
gold
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Topic 1
Question for 10 Points
This reason for going to Jamestown or another
American colony involves sharing good
newsShow Answer
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God (spreading Christianity)
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Topic 1
Question for 15 Points
This reason for going to Jamestown or another
American colony involves personal
attentionShow Answer
Topic 1
Answer for 15 Points
glory
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Topic 1
Question for 20 Points
This reason for going to Jamestown or other
American colonies might motivate the poor or indentured servants
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Topic 1
Answer for 20 Points
Possibility of a better life, jobs, finding a
husband, owning your own land…
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Topic 1
Question for 25 Points
This reason for going to Jamestown or another
American colony involves cuddly
woodland creaturesShow Answer
Topic 1
Answer for 25 Points
Fur trade
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Topic 2
Question for 5 Points
Who was the Native American chief that
sometimes helps and sometimes fights
against the colonists?Show Answer
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Answer for 5 Points
Chief Powhatan
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Topic 2
Question for 10 Points
Who was the Jamestown leader who helped save Jamestown by trading for food and making everyone work?
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Topic 2
Answer for 10 Points
John Smith
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Topic 2
Question for 15 Points
Who was chief Powhatan’s daughter who supposedly saved John Smith’s life and
later married a colonist? Show Answer
Topic 2
Answer for 15 Points
Pocahontas
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Topic 2
Question for 20 Points
Who married Pocahontas and was the first to plant a successful crop of
tobacco in Jamestown?Show Answer
Topic 2
Answer for 20 Points
John Rolfe
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Topic 2
Question for 25 Points
What was the name of the governor of Jamestown that arrived after the “Starving Time” and prevented the inhabitants of Jamestown
from leaving?
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Topic 2
Answer for 25 Points
Lord De La Warr
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Topic 3
Question for 5 Points
What is the name of the group of people
who work in exchange for passage to the
colonies?Show Answer
Topic 3
Answer for 5 Points
Indentured servants
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Topic 3
Question for 10 Points
What group of people were first brought from western
Africa to Jamestown in 1619 and sold to work on
tobacco plantations?
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Topic 3
Answer for 10 Points
slaves
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Topic 3
Question for 15 Points
What do you call a young person who is
learning a trade from a more experienced
worker?Show Answer
Topic 3
Answer for 15 Points
apprentice
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Topic 3
Question for 20 Points
What is the name for a skilled worker who
makes things by hand? Example: silversmith,
carpenter, etc…Show Answer
Topic 3
Answer for 20 Points
artisan
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Topic 3
Question for 25 Points
What was the name of the first legislative
assembly in Jamestown?
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Topic 3
Answer for 25 Points
House of Burgesses
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Topic 4
Question for 5 Points
Name one of the three ships that sailed in the first trip to Jamestown
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Topic 4
Answer for 5 Points
Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery
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Topic 4
Question for 10 Points
Why did colonists move to Jamestown?
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Topic 4
Answer for 10 Points
For money (gold, etc)
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Topic 4
Question for 15 Points
How did John Smith help the Jamestown
colony?
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Topic 4
Answer for 15 Points
He traded with the Indians for food, made everyone work (or they didn’t eat), and mapped the Chesapeake Bay area
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Topic 4
Question for 20 Points
What was the name of the winter of 1610 where all but about 60 colonists
died from hunger, disease, or Indian attack?
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Topic 4
Answer for 20 Points
The Starving Time
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Topic 4
Question for 25 Points
What finally saved Jamestown from
failure?
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Topic 4
Answer for 25 Points
Growing tobacco
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Topic 5
Question for 5 Points
What ship carried passengers to
Plymouth?
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Topic 5
Answer for 5 Points
The Mayflower
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Topic 5
Question for 10 Points
What group of people are famous for settling
in Plymouth?
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Answer for 10 Points
Separatists (or Pilgrims)
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Topic 5
Question for 15 Points
Why did the Pilgrims/Separatists move to Plymouth?
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Topic 5
Answer for 15 Points
Religious freedom
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Topic 5
Question for 20 Points
What led to the high death rate in the
Pilgrims’ first winter?
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Answer for 20 Points
Cold, disease, lack of good food, lack of
shelter…
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Topic 5
Question for 25 Points
How did the Pilgrims (and the rest of the
group) survive the first year in Plymouth?
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Topic 5
Answer for 25 Points
The Wampanoag taught them to grow corn, hunt, and fish
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“Big Points”
Question
Name 2 major differences between
the colonists at Jamestown and the
colonists at PlymouthShow Answer
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Big Points
Answer for Big Points
Treatment of Natives, reason for moving,
work ethic, crops, etc…
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