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Test Description: Jamestown
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which English colony failed before Jamestown was created?
A
The Virginia Company
B
Roanoke
C
House of Burgesses
2) King James 1 allowed ____________ to start the Jamestown colony.
A
The Virginia Company
B
John Rolfe
C
the House of Burgessses
3) What was one of the problems in the first months of the Jamestown colony?
A
They couldn't find wood for fuel or building.
B
The summer was too hot and dry.
C
colonists didn't know how to farm or fish
4) For whom was Jamestown named?
A
James Smith
B
King James I
C
James Taylor
5) What rule did Captain John Smith put in place?
A
Anyone who did work got extra rations.
B
Anyone who did not work had to leave.
C
Anyone who did not work did not eat.
6) What cash crop was better than finding gold in the New World?
A
squash
B
corn
C
tobacco
7) What was the name of the legislature that made laws in the colony?
A
The Virginia Company
B
Royal Governor
C
House of Burgesses
8) African workers arrived as paid workers at first, but then were used as ___________.
A
slaves
B
indentured servants
C
Burgesses
9) What is something the colonists did that angered the Powhatan Confederacy?
A
Stole their tobacco
B
Stole their food (crops)
C
Stole their gold
10) How did the colonists get more land to grow tobacco?
A
They simply took it from the Powhatan.
B
They paid the Powhatan gold for it.
C
They traded with the Powhatan.
11) Colonists started to work harder when the Virginia Company did what?
A
Put a royal governor in charge
B
Gave them their own piece of land after they worked for seven years.
C
Paid them in gold
12) What was one thing King James I did after a war with Powhatan?
A
Gave the colonists their own piece of land after seven years
B
Took control of the colony and put a royal governor in charge.
C
Gave the colonists stock in the Virginia Company
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