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Chapter 4 lesson 2
Pages 130-133
Read Pages Read Pages
130130--133 silently 133 silently
and answer the and answer the
following following
questions in questions in
your Social your Social
Studies Studies
composition composition
book!book!
1. Where did John White think the
Roanoke settlers had gone?
2. What cash crop brought money to
Jamestown?
3. Why did the English settlers and the
Powhatans make peace?
Charter
•• A written A written
agreement agreement
giving giving giving giving
someone the someone the
right to right to
establish a establish a
colonycolony
Indentured Servant• A person who
agreed to work for a certain number of years number of years in return for passage to America, food, clothing, and
shelter
Lost ColonyLost Colony• England wanted to
settle in North
America to find gold
and silver
• First English
settlements failed
• 1587- John White • 1587- John White
settled Roanoke
• White left back to
England for
supplies
• When he came back
Roanoke was gone
Jamestown Colony
• Jamestown was the first successful settlement in
America
• When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown they • When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown they
looked for gold.
• 1606 – Virginia Company was started
• 1607 – 100 men and boys traveled to Virginia
• Jamestown was named after King James 1
• In 1619, women and Africans were the first to arrive
in Jamestown.
John Smith
• Took command of
Jamestown
• “He who does not
work, will not eat”work, will not eat”
• 1609 – “Starving time”
– most colonist died
Jamestown Succeeds • 1612 – John Rolfe learned tobacco grew well in Virginia
• People paid high • People paid high price
• 1619 – First Africans arrived (indentured servants)
Jamestown and Powhatans
Powerful group of Indians lived in Jamestown –Powhatans
Powhatans and Powhatans and English battled until John Rolfe married Pocahontas
1646 – English took control of Jamestown
What you should remember!!
Jamestown is the first successful settlement in
north America.north America.
John Rolfe married Pocahontas.