Objective: To examine the formation of the settlements of Roanoke Island and Jamestown.

Roanoke Island – “The Lost Colony”• Roanoke Island was the first British settlement in North America.

Sir Walter Raleigh funded and authorized the expeditions to Roanoke Island.

• Roanoke Island was first settled by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.

• Raleigh named the entire region Virginia.

• However, Roanoke Island is in present day North Carolina, where the capital is named Raleigh.

• The settlement failed because of food shortages and troubles with the Native Americans and Spain.

• In 1587, John White returned and tries again to start a British settlement on Roanoke Island.

• John White returned to England later in 1587 for supplies.

View the artwork of John White.

• Because of fighting between the British and the Spanish Armada, White was unable to return to the colony until 1590.

John White drawing of Pomeiooc Village, 1585

• White returned in 1590 to find that everyone had vanished.

Constructing Support Activity• Construct support for the following

statement:– “Roanoke colony fails!!”

• Give 2-3 reasons and provide 1-2 facts per reason to support– Keep in mind the following questions:

• What am I trying to provide support for?• What proof can I offer?

Objective: To analyze the development of slave labor in Jamestown.

Settlement of Jamestown• The Virginia Company offered people willing to move to Jamestown a headright.Headright – 50 acres of land given to each person who could pay their own way to Virginia

Official seal of the Virginia Company

In the photos above, the blue square represents one acre. 

one acre = 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet

Cheerio, mates, how about working for the Virginia Company in the beautiful settlement of Jamestown! After all, only 66% of the people have died, so you have a 1 in 3 chance of surviving!

Also, everyone that can pay for their own journey to Virginia will receive 50 acres of land, free!

It sounds tempting, but we have a good life in England. Why should we give up the good life?

And if we go, I will have to work! Yuck!

Sounds great! Sign me up! After I receive my headright, I’ll finally have land of my own! Umm…I only have one problem. I’m broke and can’t pay for my own journey. Too bad, you say? Darn!!

• The Virginia Company began to hire indentured servants.

indentured servants – an individual who worked without wages for a specified number of years (usually 4 - 7) in exchange for transportation to the colonies.

• In 1619, the Virginia Company brought the first Africans to Jamestown as indentured servants.

* Soon afterwards, Africans were used as slaves.

• Also in 1619, male settlers chose burgesses, or representatives, that met in an assembly called the House of Burgesses.

• The House of Burgesses, along with the governor, made the laws for Jamestown, becoming the first representative government in the English colonies .

representative government – a government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

• In 1723, the right to vote was taken away from free black property owners as well.

• By 1670, only male property owners were allowed to vote.

Voting Rights

The Settlement of Jamestown• The settlement of Jamestown was started in Virginia by the Virginia Company in 1607.

• Captain John Smith saved Jamestown by:- bargaining for food with the Powhatan Indians.- calling for a “no work, no food” rule.

- 2/3’s of the colonists died of disease and hunger.

Model of Jamestown

• The colonist John Rolfe married the Powhatan princess Pocahontas.

JOHN ROLFE AND POCAHONTAS

early 1850s, J. W. Glass

Pocohantas

John Rolfe

• This marriage brought peace between the colonists and the Powhatans, and ensured economic success for Jamestown after Pocahontas introduced tobacco to John Rolfe.

3-2-1 Activity

• List 3 people, and explain how, that contributed to the success of the Jamestown colony

• Give 2 characteristics of the House of Burgesses

• List one thing you have learned about Jamestown