1. Wednesday 9/4
TOTD: Now that you know about the Lost Colony, what do you think is the most logical theory regarding the disappearance of the colonists in Roanoke, NC? Explain your reasoning.
Agenda:
TOTD
Notes pg 2
Jamestown/Plymouth Venn Diagram
Columbian Exchange Booklet (Due Fri)

2. John Smith: leader of Jamestown
English Settlements
Virginia Company: Group of English merchants who secured a charter from king to develop land in new world
Jamestown, 1607
1st permanent SUCCESSFUL settlement/Joint-stock colony
John Smith: leader of Jamestown
Virginia Company: Opportunity to make $ in selling of land to settlers
Hard times: see next slides
Powhatan: Indian Tribe helped/attacked colonists
“Starving Time” Powhatan killed colonists livestock/destroyed their cropsLed to famine
600 to 60 survive
Now what?
Needed laws/government over there so they set up the 1st representative democracy in the Americas

3. Basic daily rations for each traveler on the ship to Jamestown included:
dried hardtack (biscuits that were baked until all moisture was removed)
salted, dried or pickled meats and fish
Cheese
oatmeal or barley
a gallon of beer or wine.
In bad weather, no cooking was allowed on board the ships, so the settlers soaked the biscuits in water to make them edible.
Cheese and cold pickled meats completed these meals
Lack of fresh water also contributed to the many dead

4. These people founded the first English settlement.
This charter included all lands in North Carolina not occupied by Spanish or French
These people founded the first English settlement.
Named it JAMESTOWN!
Jamestown- 1st successful English settlement, 1607 (20 years after lost colony)

5. Hard times- Powhatan- COOL FACTS/FYI: b/c no real workers
Don’t know the land/how to farm
Disease…again
No food
Powhatan-
Indian tribe
English received their help
But as #s grew, so did tensions and Powhatan ATTACKED!
COOL FACTS/FYI:
Despite these rocky beginnings, Powhatan did exhibit trust of the newcomers when he allowed his sons and at least one daughter (Pocahontas) to travel to and from the settlement.
The English needed the Indians
--corn, venison, and fish
Indians guaranteed their survival by supplying them.

6. 50 acres to each new colonist -indentured servants
Jamestown
More colonists do come, now what?
Remember, they are all loyal to England and the king.
…Only here for adventure, money, advancement
Establish some sort of government to be in place locally!
1st democratic gov’t- House of Burgesses!
-more colonists
-1st democratic gov’t
***House of Burgesses: Needed laws/government over there so they set up the 1st representative democracy in the Americas
-tobacco as a cash crop
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
-headright system
50 acres to each new colonist
-indentured servants
-first slaves imported

7. House of Burgesses
2 representatives from each town/community to represent the people
12 men
Helped make laws/bring order to this area
Remember, “leader” is sitting on a throne in England.
*** marked the beginning of colonial self-government!***
1st REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY!!!

8. John Rolfe and tobacco- cha ching!
Tobacco as a ca$h crop-
Grown for trade and profit
John Rolfe-crossbred with a Brazilian form. Everyone loved it.
Married Pocahantas
Attraction, but also allowed for peace treaty between the Powhatans and colonists.

10. Pocahontas-married around 17
Married Rolfe in a Christian ceremony (changed her name to Rebecca) 1614
d.-1617

11. Clash with Indians
-desire for land led to conflicts
-European feelings of superiority
-no intermarriage with Indians groups
-fought wars with Powhatan Indians
-Virginia becomes royal colony so that King’s Army can protect settlers

12. -Indian dispute on the frontier
First Rebellion
-Indian dispute on the frontier
-Colonists ask for protection from Virginia Gov’t, but were denied..man up
Bacon was so angry he marched on Jamestown
-Nathaniel Bacon led the frontier colonists in a rebellion against the Virginia gov’t and was defeated**called Bacon’s Rebellion
-showed signs of discontent with leadership Problem: fighting Indians and now fighting each other.

13. NO DRINKING OR SWEARING!
Religious Reasons
When you think Puritans, think old strict church lady…
-Henry VIII begins the Anglican Church (Protestant) church in 1534
He was Catholic, officially changes English religion forever!
-Reformers want to rid the church of all Roman Catholic traditions
-Puritans
wanted to purify the Church of England
Literal interpretation of the bible
individual and congregational control of religion
**left b/c of this. Considered RELIGIOUS DISSENTERS!
NO DRINKING OR SWEARING!

14. Think Pilgrims, think Pilgrims
-Pilgrims also called Separatists because they wanted to practice their own religion
-Plymouth Mass. 1620
-Mayflower Compact
set up direct democracy for the colony *leads to tradition of town meetings. EVERYONE is DIRECTLY involved.
-colony struggled but received Indian help to grow crops
Thanksgiving  1621
Squanto, cool Indian friend
-William Bradford
Pilgrim leader/Governor
“Of Plymouth Plantation”
Think Pilgrims, think

15. Massachusetts Bay Company
“Religion all day every day! What What!
Big ups to ‘da GOD”
-Puritans
-John Winthrop
-City on a Hill
be an example to the world… everyone is watching, oh and GOD.
-connection between church and state RELIGION and GOVERNMENT NEED TO BE TOGETHER!
-strict adherence to Puritan rules

16. “People should be able to believe/worship in their own way.
There is NO room for RELIGION in GOVERNMENT!”
Puritan Dissent
-Roger Williams
Separation of Church and State
exiled from the colony
fled and founded Providence R.I.
-Anne Hutchinson
belief in individual worship
banished in famous trial
fled to R.I.
Separation of church and state and individual worship!

17. -some cooperation but short lived
Indian Resistance
-some cooperation but short lived
-disease, land, and religion caused disputes
-Pequot War, 1637
massacre of Indians: 500+ men/women/children
Puritans of Massachusetts Bay spread further into Connecticut, (CT) they came into increasing conflict with the Pequots, a war-like tribe centered on the Thames River in SE CT
-King Philip’s War: King Philip's War of (also known as Metacom's Rebellion) marked the last major effort by the Indians of southern New England to drive out the English settlers. lots of deaths on both sides but colonists win and Indian resistance fades

18. Venn Diagram Read the Jamestown/Plymouth Compare and Contrast Article
Create a Venn Diagram of these two early colonies
10 contrasting facts for each
4 similarities
3 illustrations
for each side
Jamestown
Plymouth