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Which English colony failed before Jamestown was created?
a) Roanoke
b) The Virginia Company
c) House of Burgesses
d)

King James 1 allowed ____________ to start the Jamestown colony.
a) the House of Burgessses
b) The Virginia Company
c) John Rolfe
d)

What was one of the problems in the first months of the Jamestown colony?
a) The summer was too hot and dry.
b) They couldn't find wood for fuel or building.
c) colonists didn't know how to farm or fish
d)

For whom was Jamestown named?
a) King James I
b) James Taylor
c) James Smith
d)

What rule did Captain John Smith put in place?
a) Anyone who did not work had to leave.
b) Anyone who did not work did not eat.
c) Anyone who did work got extra rations.
d)

What cash crop was better than finding gold in the New World?
a) corn
b) tobacco
c) squash
d)

What was the name of the legislature that made laws in the colony?
a) Royal Governor
b) The Virginia Company
c) House of Burgesses
d)

African workers arrived as paid workers at first, but then were used as ___________.
a) indentured servants
b) slaves
c) Burgesses
d)

What is something the colonists did that angered the Powhatan Confederacy?
a) Stole their gold
b) Stole their tobacco
c) Stole their food (crops)
d)

How did the colonists get more land to grow tobacco?
a) They simply took it from the Powhatan.
b) They traded with the Powhatan.
c) They paid the Powhatan gold for it.
d)

Colonists started to work harder when the Virginia Company did what?
a) Put a royal governor in charge
b) Paid them in gold
c) Gave them their own piece of land after they worked for seven years.
d)

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
d)

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