From Rethinking Jamestown

What did the early settlers expect to find once they arrived in Virginia?

a) gold

b) wives

c) slaves

d) English rum

The traditional view of the Jamestown settlers has painted these men as

a) lazy and indolent.

b) ambitious and hard-working.

c) America's first mining company.

d) America's first patriots.

Modern archeology suggests the first Jamestown settlers were

a) miners on the make.

b) well-prepared and rather resourceful.

c) gentlemen farmers, unaccustomed to hard work.

d) thieves and Indian killers.

With the Indians, the first settlers were instructed to

a) wipe them out.

b) take them prisoner, then sell them into slavery.

c) cultivate a close relationship.

d) drive them off the coastline.

The "starving time" of 1609 in Jamestown is now attributed to

a) a lack of seed and food stores.

b) Indian massacres.

c) a lack of preparation by settlement leaders.

d) drought.