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English Colonization-Jamestown

Term 1. Define it!!

2nd Roanoke The Lost Colony

Jamestown

Spanish Armada

2. Why is it important?

1st Roanoke

Date

John Smith

Jamestown Content Frame

Term 1. Define it!!

Slaves

Tobacco

2. Why is it important?

House of Burgesses

Date

Free Enterprise/Capitalism

European Countries began setting up

colonies in the New World.

Spain was able to claim the most land first.

Land = Money for the Mother Country using

“Mercantilism”

Mercantilism=The Mother Country takes the resources of the Colony

to make products,

then sells the products

back to the Colony

England wanted what Spain had….Spain had colonies in the Americas

which provided them with gold, silver, sugar cane from plantations, etc…

Gold, sugar and the rest=$$$$$$$=POWER=Number 1 in the World!

England wanted to Be #1!

England realized that setting up colonies would earn them more money in the long run. They began directing their resources toward establishing permanent colonies.

Colonization is where the REAL money is made

15851. This was England’s 1st

attempt to start a colony.

The 1st colony was destroyed when the

Natives realized that the English wanted their land

and they stopped replenishing the English

food supply.2. Colony failed and

surviving members of the colony returned to England in 1586.

1st Roanoke Island

Sir Walter Raleigh starts the first colony at Roanoke Island.

15871. Colony started by

John White & his family. His granddaughter was the first English child (Virginia Dare) born in North America. Ran out of supplies so White sailed and left family at Roanoke (1588)..

2. White returned in 1590 but the colony had disappeared. No one knows what happened to them.

2nd Roanoke“The Lost Colony”

King James I issued a charter in 1606 to set up a

colony that he hoped would make money for

England. This is an ECONOMIC reason for

setting up a colony.1. Jamestown was the first

permanent English Colony in NORTH AMERICA.They named the colony Jamestown in honor of

King James I.2. Was set up for

Economic Reasons-to make money

The colonists immediately ran into trouble.

Jamestown

First day in Jamestown

1607

On May 14, 1607, colonists from England selected a piece of land on a large peninsula for a new settlement. The Peninsula was surrounded on 3 sides by rivers. The settlement was set up near deep water, making it easy to get big ships close to the settlement. However, the

island was swampy, isolated, offered limited space and was plagued by mosquitoes (that gave settlers malaria)

and brackish river water unsuitable for drinking. In addition the settlers arrived too late in the year to get

crops planted. Many in the group were not used to hard, physical work. Their servants didn’t know how to or

want to farm and labor as hard as it would take either. In a few months, were dead; some of the survivors were deserting to the Indians whose land they had invaded.

Jamestown – “Never Give Up, Never Surrender!”

Jamestown was started for economic purposes…to make $$$$$$$$ for the company, the settlers and the

king but it failed at first.

1608At first JT was settled by young men who wanted to find gold. They refused to plant crops or hunt for food. Within the first

year over 75% died of starvation and disease. JT was going to fail like Roanoke. By 1608 only 38

colonist were still alive in Jamestown.

1. John Smith took over the colony. Convinced colonists to work and was able to trade with the Powhatan tribe for corn. He announced that, “He that will not work shall not eat.”

2. His leadership saved the colony.

John Smith

Pocahontas saving John

Smith

Jamestown Fort

Problems at Jamestown:In the beginning everyone was supposed to farm together, then put what they had into a common

storehouse. From there, each person would be given what it was decided he needed. In reality, the ones that

worked ended up providing for the ones that didn’t. Since only a few were putting food in the common-storehouse,

the supply quickly ran out.

1609–1610In 1609 Smith was injured

and he returned to England.

Hundreds of new colonist arrived. They took Native American land, angering

the local tribe. By 1610 Powhatan Indians stopped trading with the colonists. Indian attacks

escalated.Only 61 of the 500

colonists survived the period

The Starving Time!!

Only 60 colonists survived.

Colonist ate dogs, rats,

mice….

The Starving Time

16121.John Rolfe brought

a high quality tobacco plant that became the cash crop for JT. Cash Crop=crops you grow to sell.

2.Tobacco could be sold for a lot of money in England. Tobacco saved Jamestown! It was profitable and more people moved to JT to live.

Tobacco

1. Under capitalism, you are allowed to participate in the profits

2. Free Enterprise (Capitalism) increased the colonist’s productivity

How Jamestown Survived:The Virginia Company (investors) & leaders of JT decided to give each man a parcel of land and allow them to keep some of the profit from the sale of their tobacco. When

people knew they were responsible for their own survival and that they could make a profit by selling their excess, most got to work. Jamestown was the start of the FREE

ENTERPRISE system in North America

Free Enterprise/Capitalism-After 1610

Colonist (mostly white) who could not pay their way to America, agreed to

work for an owner for a certain number of years if the owner would

pay their way to the New World.After a number of years of servitude

the colonist could make their own way at Jamestown or another colony.

Interesting Fact:The first slave owner in the colonies

was an African American man who had started out an indentured

servant. He earned his freedom, paid to bring over his own servants and

went to court to have them made into his slaves. Court gave him a black

man to be his slave for life.

Indentured Servants

1619 1. A person who is the property of

another person. 2. Provided an inexpensive labor force.They were used to harvest tobacco for English

plantation owners.This was the beginning of slavery in America.

Slaves

1. King of England2. Parliament (Like

our Congress)Problems:

2000 miles away from America

Had to appoint a governor for local control

3. Virginia Company of London-Investors. Too far away

So Colonists came up with and the King

allowed:

Who would set the rules for colonists

in Virginia?

Colonist need LOCAL government .

1. Local Control. Representatives were elected by the people of the colony. Assembly could meet once a year.

2. The House of Burgesses helped develop representative democracy in the colonies because it was the first representative assembly in the American colonies.

House of BurgessesVery Important!!!

1619

House of BurgessesVery Important!!!

Term Define it!!

2nd Roanoke-The Lost Colony

Jamestown

John Smith

Spanish Armada

Why is it important?

1st Roanoke 1585

Date

England’s 1st attempt to start a colony Colony failed.

Colony started by John White & his family Colony disappeared

Spain attacked England with 130 warships

Spain defeated. England is able to colonize in

America

First permanent English colony

Was set up for Economic Reasons-to make money

Convinced colonists to work and was able to trade for corn. “He that will not

work shall not eat.”

Saved the colony.

1587

1588

1607

1608

Jamestown Content Frame-Key

Term Define it!!

Free Enterprise/Capitalism

Tobacco

Why is it important?Date

John Rolfe brought tobacco plant that became the cash crop for JT. Cash Crop=crops you grow to

sell.

Tobacco saved Jamestown

You are allowed to participate in the profits

Increased the colonist’s productivity

1612

1610

Slaves 1619 A person who is the property of another

person.

Provided an inexpensive labor force

House of Burgesses 1619 Local ControlHelped develop

representative democracy in the colonies because it

was the first representative assembly in the American

colonies.

1. Draw a line down the center of your paper.

2. Cut out your pictures.3. Glue them into your spiral. 2-3

per page.4. Write in the Date, the Name of

the Event, Define It and Why is it Important. Must have all of this on your timeline.

5. When finished, you may color the pictures

Jamestown Timeline

15851st Roanoke Island

England’s 1st attempt to start a colonyColony failed

15872nd Roanoke

Colony started by John White & his

familyThe colony disappeared

Example:

1st Roanoke Island

Spanish Armada

Jamestown

1607

2nd Roanoke Island-The Lost Colony

Tobacco

John Smith

Free EnterpriseCapitalism Slaves

House of Burgesses

Concept Definition Map

1607

Key Event

Reason it was started

Item that helped colony survive

Leader who kept colony

from starving

Workers brought to

work plantations 1st

Representative Government

Concept Definition Map

1607

JamestownEconomic Reasons

Tobacco

John Smith

SlavesHouse of Burgesses