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3 a,b,c Jamestown Study Guide

You will need to know the following items for the test:

Why did Great Britain start a colony in America? Economic venture (money) ,
wanted to gain wealth and power, wanted to find gold and silver
Who financed (or paid for) Jamestown? - Virginia Company of London
Important dates
1606 Charter was granted to VA company
1607 Arrived in Jamestown first permanent settlement
Three ships that came to Jamestown
Susan Constant
Discovery
Godspeed
Jamestown was a peninsula i n 1607. Today it is an island.
People to know
John Smith strong leader, If you do not work, you do not eat.
Christopher Newport in charge of settlers when they left England on ships
Powhatan Indians Indians who helped the colonists survive, traded with the
colonists
Chief Powhatan Chief of many tribes who taught the colonists survival skills
Pocahontas daughter of Chief Powhatan, served as a contact between native
people and settlers
King James I granted the charter to the VA company

Hardships in Jamestown
Starvation
Lacked farming and building skills
Salty, brackish water
Mosquitoes, diseases, malaria
Indian attack
Survival in Jamestown
Strong leadership of John Smith
Powhatan trade and taught the settlers how to grow corn and tobacco
Supply ships
Pocahontas
Trade in Jamestown
Powhatan traded to English food, animal skins,
English traded to Powhatan copper, pots, tools
Reasons why colonists choose to settle at Jamestown
Good source of water, deep enough for their boats
No Powhatan were living there
Easy to defend from attack by sea
Reasons why Jamestown was a poor site to settle
Poor drinking water
Did not ask Powhatan permission to settle at Jamestown
It was swampy, with mosquitoes that carried disease