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Colonial Beginnings. Roanoke The Lost Colony. Gov. John White made 2 trips to Virginia 1 st trip – check out the area 2 nd trip – bring 100 settlers for settlement Food was scarce …many starved to death. Roanoke The Lost Colony. White returned to England to get supplies - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Colonial Beginnings
RoanokeThe Lost Colony
Gov. John White made 2 trips to Virginia
1st trip – check out the area 2nd trip – bring 100 settlers for settlement
Food was scarce…many starved to death
RoanokeThe Lost Colony
White returned to England to get supplies
When he returned, he found NOTHING…nosigns of civilization
The only clue…“CRO”carved in tree
CRO
Jamestown, Virginia Why is Jamestown so important? It was the
1st permanent English settlement Named in honor of
King James Chartered by the
Virginia Company Motivation for
settlement – gold/silver
Problems: Area low-lying/swampy (mosquitos
carried malaria) Summers – hot & humid Winters – bitter cold; settlers arrived
too late to plant crops Attacks from the
Natives
By the end of the first year only 38 of 103 settlers were alive
Gentlemen were “too good” to work…they were there to search for gold ($$$)
The colony desperately needed leadership…and John Smith stepped up
JOHN SMITH Ruthless man
Arrived during the 2nd winter (1608)
Created work ethic among the colonists – “Work or die” during this “starving time”
Smith kept notes that were made into a book
He was captured by the Powhatan Indians. His life was spared when he befriended Pocahontas.
A gunpowder accident caused John Smith toreturn to England.
JOHN ROLFE John Rolfe takes over and brings 800 more
settlers with him to Jamestown
He becomes the 1st successful European tobacco farmer
Tobacco caused increased problems with the Natives.
Why? Planting tobacco fields meant expanding the size of the Jamestown colony
John Rolfe meets and marries Pocahontas
She becomes a Christian and is baptized as Rebecca
Rolfe returns to England with Rebecca when he is summoned by the Virginia Company
Jamestown Housing
House of Burgesses 1st representative government in
the New World – allowed for elected officials to represent colonists
Created local laws
Dutch ships bring in Africans to work tobacco crops in Jamestown
DELETE!!! Cross out the following portion of
your notes:
BACON’s REBELLION (#31-40)
Separatists Better known as the Pilgrims
Separated from the Church of England
Fled to Holland…and were dissatisfied w/ Holland
Contacted the Virginia Company regarding sailing to New World
Mayflower 35 of the 102 passengers were Separatists
(the others were commoners from England)
Leader – William Bradford
Sailed for 66 days
What did they have to eat? Nothing but cheese, hard bread, fish, beer
Were sailing to Plymouth
Mayflower Compact A storm blew them off course,
and they landed outside the Virginia Company limits in which later became Massachusetts
– this meant their charter was no good A compact was created –
established laws for the good of the colony
Created self-government (majority rule) – ”civil government”
8 males did not sign – they were under 15 or indentured servants
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