Jamestown Information
Click on the Jamestown link at the Teacher Notes page and follow the directions to answer these questions.
Questions 1-3: Click on the map to enter the site. From the main menu at the left, choose Reference Center, then select a) Jamestown Timelines.
1. What was the date that the English settlers arrived in the New World and established Jamestown?
Click on John Smith's name. Read paragraph 5.
2. What happened in December 1607?
Read paragraph 7.
3. As leader of Jamestown, how did John Smith help the settlers survive through the winter of 1608-09?
Questions 4-7: Go back to the Reference Center page and choose c) People and Events. At this point you will have two choices, choose Biographies of Jamestown Leaders. Select the biography of John Rolfe.
4. Read paragraph 1. What was Rolfe remembered for?
5. Who did he marry? How did this help the settlers of Jamestown?
6. Read paragraph 3. What made tobacco popular in Europe through the 1620's?
7. Tobacco was the ___________________ of the Virginia colony.
Questions 8-10: Return to the Virtual Jamestown homepage. Access the Public Records link. Select a) censuses.
8. Click Occupations of the New World (1607-1608). How many councilmen (leaders) came to Jamestown on the first trip?
9. List some of the other occupations included on this first voyage.
10. Why do you think there were many men of different occupations?
Question 11: Go back to the Public Records page. Choose c) Laws. Select Laws on Religion -- Seventeenth Century.
11. Click on April 10 and November 20, 1606. What were the settlers supposed to do in the New World in the name of Christianity?
Questions 12-14: Go back to the Virtual Jamestown homepage. Access the Maps and Images link. Then chose Original Maps.
12. Select Jamestown Fort 1607. In what shape was the Jamestown settlement?
13. Describe the surrounding areas.
14. Why do you think the settlers established Jamestown where they did?
Go back to the Maps and Images page. Select Virtual Panoramas, then visit the Inside the Fort link. Here is where you can actually get a 3-D look at Jamestown. Once the picture loads, place the pointer anywhere on the picture. While holding down the left mouse button, move in any direction to look around. Use the "+" and "-" buttons to zoom in and out.
15. Describe the houses of the settlement. What do the walls look like they're made out of? The roofs? What else can you see?
Go back to the Virtual Panorama page.
16. Choose the View From the Fort link to see the current archaeological excavations.
*** Now go on to complete the Plymouth scavenger hunt sheet! ***
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