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VA studies Chapter 3 Read and Respond

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24 questions

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Question 1

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Page 50. List three reasons that Queen Elizabeth wanted to set up a new colony for England?

Question 2

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Page 50. What is a colony?

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Question 3

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What is a charter?

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Question 6

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Who came originally to Jamestown?

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Question 8

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Give three reasons that the colonists originally believed that Jamestown was the perfect place to settle.

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Question 10

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What was one positive aspect of the relationship between the colonist and Native Virginians? What was one negative aspect of their relationship?

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Question 12

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What did Powhatan see as the future between his tribe, and the English settlers?

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Question 14

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Name three reasons that the settlers did not have enough food and water.

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Question 16

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What was each colonist supposed to do with their 3 acre plot of land?

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Question 18

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What was the purpose of the General Assembly?

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Question 20

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Who was allowed to be a member of the House of Burgesses? What kinds of things to burgesses decide?

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Question 21

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What happened in 1619 that would change the course of our country?

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Question 22

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How did this paragraph make you feel? What did you understand from it?

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Question 4

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What is the mystery of the "lost colony"?

Question 5

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To "finance" means to provide money and materials for a business. Who financed the Virginia charter? What did they hope to get in return?

Question 7

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Who was the most troublesome passenger on the voyage to Virginia? What did they do to this passenger?

Question 9

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List three difficulties the settlement of Jamestown faced.

Question 11

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How would you describe the personality of John Smith?

Question 13

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Who was Pocahontas? What did she do to improve Native Americans and English relations?

Question 15

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What is agriculture?

Question 17

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What was the new crop that the colonist grew to sell to England for profit?

Question 19

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As new settlers arrived, how many towns had been created along the James river? How did the settlers acquire this land?

Question 23

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How did slave traders get their cargo (Africans to bring to America and sell)?

Question 24

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Why did the Virginia Company send a ship of women in 1620?