Thursday and Friday – read packet from Don’t Know Much About History and answer the study questions.
(pages 23-42)
Study Questions for Don’t Know Much About History
1) List three problems James faced in its early years.
2) Who was Powhatan?
3) What was the truth story behind John Smith and Pocahontas?
4) Who exactly was John Rolfe and why was he important?
5) What was the price for one of the 90 maidens in tobacco?
6) Who started the slave trade? What year did the first slaves come to Jamestown?
7) When was 1619 an important year for Jamestown? What three things happened?
8) Where did the Pilgrims land? Was it Plymouth or somewhere else?
9) What was the Mayflower Compact? What did the colonist agree to in the Mayflower Compact?
10) Between 1629-1642 how many settlers left England?
11) Who Roger Williams? What did he believe and what did he end up doing?
12) What was New York originally called and who founded the colony?
13) Discuss France in the “New World” in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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