Knights Charge 9/13 Take a Knights Charge from the bin as well as a blank map of the 13 colonies Please sit in your assigned seats

Knights Charge 9/14 Take your notes out from yesterday

The Lost Colony, Jamestown, & Bacon’s Rebellion The Beginnings of English Colonization The Lost Colony, Jamestown, & Bacon’s Rebellion

If we started a colony… What would we need??? Resources (water, food, supplies, general survival items, etc.) Jobs Rules/Laws Religion? Economy? Government Who gets to go? Men only? Animals? Crops? Weapons?

Reasons vs. Realities of Going to the New World

Moving to the “New World” Why Move to the New World? Money- Could own your own land and farm or start a business Religious Freedom- escaping religious percecution Overall, people were in search for a better life

Joint- Stock Companies Investors would buy “shares” of a company and this money would help build the colonies. Investors hoped to make money off the success of the colonies.

Virginia Company of London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2tzfxQ6T4

Roanoke Colony- The Lost Colony Created by leader Sir Walter Raleigh Purpose of the colony was to make money England’s first attempt at a colony in New World Raleigh's colony simply vanished and no one knows what happened to it The truth remains a mystery today

The Lost Colony of Roanoke After establishing the colony, Gov. John White returned to England to get additional supplies in 1587. Because of the ongoing war with the Spanish, White was unable to return until 1590. Upon his return, all 117 men and women had vanished from the colony. What was left was a carving in a tree which read “CROATOAN”

The Lost Colony http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-happened-to-the-lost-colony-of-roanoke

Five popular theories… http://theshadowlands.net/roanoke.htm

Jamestown First successful English colony established in 1607 Created to make money and find gold by the Virginia Company of London In its first years, the colony struggled and almost failed Until the English discovered the use of…

Tobacco

Jamestown http://www.history.com/topics/jamestown/videos/death-at-jamestown

Virginia House of Burgesses After Jamestown was beginning to flourish from the sale of tobacco, the colony was in need of government The Virginia Company created the Virginia House of Burgesses

Virginia House of Burgesses The House of Burgesses became the first representative government in North America The people of Jamestown elected officials who would serve on the House of Burgesses

Indentured Servants First labor force in the colonies They would agree to work 5-7 years in exchange for passage to the “New World” Provided a way for the poor to work their way into the colonies After 5-7 years of service, they were free

Bacon’s Rebellion First rebellion in the American colonies Nathaniel Bacon was angered by Native American attacks in the frontier among other things Virginia’s British governor was driven away Rebels consisted of colonists and indentured servants Indentured Servitude comes to an end and slavery becomes main form of labor

You could have more of them Slaves were permanent Transition to slavery Indentured servants were not permanent and caused problems after freedom Slaves were cheap You could have more of them Slaves were permanent