1. Jamestown 1607

2. Beginning of Jamestown
The Virginia Company of London financed 100 colonists on an expedition to the Chesapeake Bay.
They landed near the James River.
They named the first permanent English settlement Jamestown in 1607 honor of King James.

5. Hardtimes in Jamestown
The colony was on swampland and full of mosquitoes
Bad drinking water and poor farmland
Climate was harsh, cold winters-warm summers
Settlers wasted time looking for gold instead of hunting or farming
Many died the first year from disease and starvation

6. RWSL
The biggest difficulty facing Jamestown was ____________________________ because _____________________________________________________________________________________________.

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8. John Smith
Fiction
Fact

9. Jamestown Grows In 1608 John Smith takes control of colony
Smith says “He that will not work, shall not eat”
Smith traded with Powhatan Indians for corn.
Another 800 English settlers arrive in 1609
Smith is injured and goes back to England

10. John Smith and Pocahontas
Pocahontas is said to have saved John Smith’s life….twice….

11. RWSL
I believe John Smith was a great leader of Jamestown because _________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

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13. Starving Time
The Powhatan stopped trading food and attacked in the winter of 1609
Food became so scarce…people ate rats, mice, snakes, and even their shoes to survive.
Only 60 colonists were alive by 1610

15. Tobacco Saves Jamestown
In 1612 John Rolfe developed a high grade sweet tobacco that colonists could grow.
The tobacco became popular in England

16. The population increased from 600 in 1619 to 2000 in 1621
In 1619 African slaves arrived in Jamestown
Indentured servants also arrived…men and women who sold their labor for passage to the new world year contract

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18. House of Burgesses 1619
The House of Burgesses became the first representative assembly in the American Colonies
Was created to provide more local control in Virginia

19. RWSL
Jamestown increased in population because ______________________________________________________________________.This resulted in the formation of ________ ___________________ which was _______ ___________________________________.