COOL HISTORY QUESTIONS

BiblioPlan - Year 3 - Week 6: Chapter 7 SOTW/PARENT COMPANION/INTERNET

1. What was the 6 step process for growing tobacco that the

Native Americans used?_____________________ it,

_____________________ it carefully, __________________ it by

hand, _____________________ the leaves up to dry, ___________________ the leaves up and

_______________________ them!!

2. John Rolfe planted tobacco seeds and copied the Native American method for growing the tobacco.

What kind of seeds did Rolfe have?

3. What were the young English men called who smoked tobacco?

4. Who were indentured servants?

5. True or False - Almost half of the colonists in Virginia were slaves within a hundred years after the

first slaves came to Jamestown.

6. Portugual wanted to attack and conquer what African kingdom?

7. Nzinga believed that she would be treated better by the Portuguese if she were a Christian so she was

baptized and her name was changed to _______________________.

8. Nzinga’s people called her ‘ngola’. What did it mean?

9. When did Angola gain its freedom from Portugual?

Picture to the right is of a Tobacco Plantation

OPTIONAL BONUS QUESTION/ACTIVITY

What did John Rolfe name his tobacco? Where did the name come from and who was
he probably honoring by giving it that name? (This is a tough question!! You will
have to hunt around to find the answer...)

COMPANION QUEST
1. The Sea Venture set sail for Jamestown on June 2, 1609. Where did they end up landing for nine months
because of a hurricane?
2. TRUE OR FALSE: George Handel’s father made him play the piano at an early age.

COOL HANDS ON ACTIVITY: Make an African drum with household materials. Look on the
internet for a good African folktale and practice telling the story while playing your drum.