Question: In what modern-day state is this region located?

Answer: Virginia

Question: What can you infer about who lived in this area before the arrival of the English?

Answer: Powhatan Indians appear to have lived in the area before the English arrived

Question: Why would the English choose to settle here?

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Question: Is there any evidence that the English expected trouble?

Answer: The English may have expected trouble because they built seven forts

Question: Is there any evidence that the English may have been too confident?

Answer: The English may have been overconfident because they built West’s Fort and Henrico almost 100 miles from Chesapeake Bay. These places look pretty vulnerable to Powhatan attack

Question: Just by looking at this map, can you make any predictions why so many colonists died at Jamestown?

Answer: One possibility is that the English were moving in to territory inhabited by other people, which would result in conflict

Question: Why did the English come to the James River in 1607?

Answer: The card to establish the first permanent English settlement in America

Question: Who helped pay for settling the James River colony?

Answer: A group of investors, who no doubt hoped to make a profit, helped pay for the adventure

Question: How many settlers died in the first six months?

Answer: Seventy died by the end of that first autumn

Question: Define Chesapeake Bay

Answer: A large bay with its opening on the Atlantic coast of Virginia