Jamestown Personalities Answer Key

This matching activity asks students to read four descriptions and identify the historical figure-John Smith, Pocahontas, John Rolfe, or Chief Powhatan-who fits each one. The character bank supports recognition while still requiring careful reading of details about leadership, diplomacy, and economic change. Students connect actions such as enforcing work rules, cultivating tobacco, leading the Powhatan Confederacy, and mediating peace to the correct person. A quick-write extension then prompts learners to explain why one figure was important to Jamestown’s survival, reinforcing evidence-based explanation. Through this task, students practice associating people with contributions, summarizing key ideas, and writing short justifications. The worksheet strengthens knowledge of relationships between English settlers and Native peoples and highlights how individual decisions shaped the colony.

Curriculum Matched Skills

Social Studies – Historical Figures and Contributions in Early Colonies

English Language Arts – Key Details and Text-Based Matching

Writing – Short Explanatory Responses with Evidence

History – Interactions Between Colonists and Native Peoples

This worksheet is part of our Jamestown Settlement collection.