1. Bell Work What is a charter? What is a joint-stock company?
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August 14, On Kodiak Island, Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founds Three Saints Bay, the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska.
August 14, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith begins an invasion of Kentucky as part of a Confederate plan to draw the Yankee army of General Don Carlos Buell away from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
August 14, As World War I enters its fourth year, China abandons its neutrality and declares war on Germany.
August 14, Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.

2. Early Virginia and Roanoke

3. Roanoke Article Questions- Cite Evidence from the text
How was John White’s group in 1587 different from earlier expeditions to Roanoke?
What are some theories about what happened to the colonists? What theory has the most evidence to support it?
Explain the significance of the findings at Cape Creek.
Why is the style of pottery that was discovered important as it pertains to Roanoke?

4. Jamestown
On April 26, 1607, The Virginia Company (a joint- stock company) landed in Virginia and founded Jamestown.
The colonists at Jamestown were unprepared so nearly 2/3 of the colonists died.
Under John Smith the colony thrived. He made colonists work harder and they formed an alliance with the Powhatan Indian tribe.

5. Jamestown
The colony continued to suffer. By 1610 only 60 colonists were still alive.
John Rolfe saved the colony by introducing a new type of tobacco that made the colony money.
John Rolfe would marry Pocahontas which would bring peace with the Powhatans.

6. Powhatan War
In 1622, colonists killed a Powhatan leader which sparked fighting for the next 20 years.
The Virginia Company could not protect its people so the English Crown cancelled the company’s charter in 1624 and Virginia became a royal colony that was lead by a governor chosen by the king.

7. Early Virginia
Large farms were established called plantations which were made possible by the headright system which gave settlers who paid their own way 50 acres of land and 50 more acres for every additional person they brought from England.
Indentured servants were brought over to work for 4-7 years before gaining their freedom.

8. Bacon’s Rebellion
By 1670 there were great numbers of former indentured servants out of work and disenfranchised.
The servants were mad about high taxes and policies toward Natives.
In 1676 a thousand Virginians led by Nathaniel Bacon lashed out at the Indians, chased Governor William Berkely from Jamestown, and burned the capitol.

9. Assignment
Compare indentured servants and slaves. MAKE A T CHART TO SHOW YOUR WORK.
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10. Colonial Slavery
Tens of thousands of Africans came to America through the middle passage in the early 1700s.
People were captured by African coastal tribes and sold to Europeans and Americans.