1. and England’s southern colonies
Jamestown
and England’s southern colonies

2. Key Terms to Know Charter - Certificate of permission from the king
Joint-stock company - Group of investors who share a company’s profits and losses.
Virginia Company - group that funded Jamestown voyage.

3. Types of Colonies Royal Proprietary
Colonies that belong to the King of England
Colonies that belong to a powerful person or company.
It started out as a proprietary and then turned to a royal colony in 1624.
What type of colony was Jamestown?

4. Sir Walter Raleigh

5. Jamestown Story
King James grants charter to Virginia Company to find land, gold, and water route to the Orient.
1/2 the group were “gentlemen”

6. 60 Miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake
13 Col

9. Jamestown Story Colonists were attacked by Algonquians on/off again.
Formed a triangle around a storehouse, church, and a number of houses.
Natives traded foods for copper and iron.

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14. John Smith
Smith takes over in 1608 and establishes a “no work, no food” policy.
In 1609, he was hurt by gunpowder and left for England. It became known as the “starving time”
Colonists buried weapons and abandoned the fort, until a resupply ship arrived.

16. Jamestown story
Colonists and the Powhatan had some peace when Pocahontas married tobacco entrepreneur John Rolfe.
Dutch slave traders traded Africans for food. Africans became indentured servants.
1622, natives attacked Jamestown and killed over 300 people.
King revokes proprietary charter and issues a royal charter.

17. What saves the colony from collapse?
Tobacco
Tobacco needed long, hot, humid growing seasons.
Constant arrivals of new English settlers
Virginia Company gave away 50 acres of free land if they paid for their own trip or paid for someone.

18. Excavation Swatow, China Ware Bowl North Italian Slipware Bowl
Bartmann Jug, made in Frenchen, Germany
Compass for Carpenters

19. Effects of Expansion Virginia’s Native American population.
,000 people
,000 people
Virginia’s English colonist population.
people
,000 people

20. Bacon’s Rebellion
“I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing [in Virginia], and I hope we shall not have these [for a] hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy...into the world, and printing has divulged [spread] them, and libels [untruths] against the best government. God keep us from both!”
~ William Berkeley, 1671

21. Bacon’s Rebellion
Settlers move farther out --> cost more $$$ to transport goods
Settlers threatened by Natives
Governor of Virginia places taxes on planters --> gives tax money to his friends.
Indians + settlers battled --> settlers wanted to kill ALL natives...but Governor doesn’t act.

22. Bacon’s Rebellion
Settlers rebel and choose Nathaniel Bacon to lead them.
Berkeley protests
Bacon and settlers drive him out of town and burned down Jamestown.
Bacon dies 2 years later from disease, Berkeley regains power, fired by the King.
WHAT SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS WERE MADE WITH BACON’S REBELLION?

24. Other Southern Colonies
Maryland
Carolinas
Georgia
Who ran the colony?
Lord
Baltimore
James
Oglethorpe
Lords Proprietors
Proprietary, but colonists disliked the rules and turned royal
Proprietary at
first, then turned
royal
Type of colony?
Proprietary
Profit venture
for English aristocrats
Protective buffer from Spanish Florida
Refuge for
Catholics
Purpose