1.  Jamestown and Roanoke

2.   Queen Elizabeth gave Sir Walter Raleigh permission to settle  Raleigh named England’s first colony Virginia – after the Virgin Queen Elizabeth  First attempt at Roanoke Island in 1585 – FAILED – all return to England  2 nd Attempt in 1587 Roanoke

3.   John White governor of 2 nd attempt at Roanoke  Brings 100 settlers  Leaves to bring back supplies  Delayed by Spanish Armada for almost 3 years  Returns to… Lost Colony of Roanoke

4. NOTHING! Everyone is gone Only clue is the word “Croatoan” carved into a post

5.  Theories Survival  Moved entire colony inland  Integrated into a nearby tribe Extinction  Move colony inland and THEN destroyed  Lost at sea  Destroyed by Spanish

6.   1 st SUCCESSFUL English Colony  Established 1607  Financed by the Virginia Company of London– not crown  Joint Stock Companies – backed by investors looking to earn profit  Charter granted in 1606 by James I  written contract issued by government giving the holder a right to establish a colony Jamestown

7.  Establishment of Jamestown

8.   Financed by Virginia Company  100 colonists  Many looking for GOLD Establishment of Jamestown

9.   Colony site was swampy and full of mosquitoes  Mosquitoes carried malaria  Many fall ill to drinking river water  Harsh climate  Hot/humid during summer  Bitter cold winters  Colonists- looking for gold Hardships at Jamestown

11.   By January 1608 – only 38 alive  John Smith – soldier/adventurer – takes control  “He that shall not work, shall not eat”  Built wall around Jamestown  Trade with Powhatan tribe  Returns to England in 1609 Survival of Jamestown

12.  John Smith Disney VersionMore Likely

13.  Powhatan Tribe  Trade corn with Jamestown beginning in 1609  Indigenous tribe of Chesapeake Bay area  English refer to chief and his tribe as Powhatan  Daughter is Pocahontas  Tensions rise with arrival of more colonists = “starving time”  Expanding tobacco plantations take over more land  1622 Powhatans kill 100’s of Jamestown residents

14.  Pocahontas Disney VersionMore likely

15.   “Saves” John Smith from her father  DOES NOT MARRY OR FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM  11 or 12 when she meets John Smith  Later married John Rolfe, a Jamestown colonist and tobacco farmer  Used as example in London of what a “tamed savage” couple could be  Dies at 22 Pocahontas

16.   Winter of 1609  Powhatan tribe stops trading with Jamestown  Attack colonists  Colonists scared to leave fort  Colonists ate rats, mice, snakes, and some reports of one another  1610 only 60 survive Starving Time

17.   Develops high grade tobacco  Becomes VERY popular in England  Virginia Company comes to view Jamestown residents as employees - mercantilism  Offered 50 acre land grant to settlers  House of Burgesses in 1619 – 1 st representative assembly – seeds of democracy  1 st African Americans arrive  Indentured Servants – need more workers  Sold labor in exchange for passage to colony and then were free after working off debt John Rolfe Saves Jamestown

18. Jamestown est 1607