1. The Settlement of the Chesapeake
(Jamestown)
1607

2. Jamestown Settlement
Dropping Anchor

3. Chesapeake Bay
The Virginia Company of London (group of merchants) received a charter from King James

4. Jamestown Settlement

5. Jamestown Chapel, 1611

6. "He who does not work, will not eat."
“Looking for Gold”
"He who does not work, will not eat."
Many of the new settlers
Were intent on finding gold.

7. Jamestown Fort, 1607 Problems: *Swampy land *mosquitoes *bad drinking
water.

8. Jamestown Settlement (Computer Generated)

9. Movie Time...

10. Early Chesapeake Settlements

11. Captain John Smith

12. Native American Population in North America

13. English Migration:
Headright System

14. Jamestown Colonization Pattern:

15. “Starving Time” During the winter of 1609-1610
Only 60 settlers survived
The colony was saved by John Rolfe and
Tobacco seeds from Trinidad.

16. John Rolfe

17. Tobacco Plant
Green
Gold
The
Golden
Weed

18. Early Colonial Tobacco
1618 — Virginia produces 20,000 pounds of tobacco.
1622 — Despite losing nearly one-third of its colonists in an Indian attack, Virginia produces 60,000 pounds of tobacco.
1627 — Virginia produces 500,000 pounds of tobacco.
1629 — Virginia produces 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco.

19. Tobacco Prices:

20. Indentured Servitude

21. Chief Powhatan

22. Pocahontas
1. Pocahontas helps John Smith by giving the English corn
And other crops to grow.
Pocahontas also helped John Smith when he is captured
By the Powhatan Indians. Capt. Smith was later released
Chief Powhatan.

23. Powhatan Indian Village

24. Indian Foods

25. House of Burgesses 1619
Set up a Representative Gov’t that followed the Magna Carta
It the stated the “rights of the people” and that “the king could not be dictator.”

26. 1622 Indian Uprisings

27. Population of Chesapeake Colonies: 1610-1750

28. George Calvert, Lord Baltimore

29. Colonization of Maryland