Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 2:  Colonial America
Page 2 - 5 and 2 - 6   Jamestown and Virginia
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The Pictures:
 
1.  Captain John Smith, an Englishman who became an important leader of the Jamestown settlement. 

2.  A European man smoking tobacco in a pipe.  Tobacco proved to be the most profitable crop for early Virginia settlers. 

3.  A man plowing a field.  Except for help from animal power, all work on a typical Colonial era farm was done by hand. 

4.  The House of Burgesses in early Virginia.  Fire destroyed the elected body's meeting places several times.  The building that stands now in Williamsburg is a reconstruction.
Answers for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 2 - 6.)
 
1.  ...put up the money to...
2.  ...on the James River was...
3.  ...also soon dead.
4.  ...New World, tobacco, that saved...
5.  ...a royal governor.
6.   ...up Virginia's rivers.
7.  ...sold by other Africans...
8.  ...trade grew rapidly to meet...
9.  ...like Mount Vernon, the home...
10.  ...under the king and...
11.  ...governing themselves through...
12.  ...and self-reliant, many...


Names and Terms List:

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