1. PreAP Jump Start Find your new seat 
Pick up a Background Essay from the front shelf.
You will have 7 minutes to read the essay and write a 3-5 words summary of each paragraph in the margins next to each paragraph.
IGNORE the last paragraph.

2. On Level Jump Start Find your new seat 
Pick up a Background Essay from the front shelf.
You will have 5 minutes to read the essay and highlight the most important sentence(s) in each paragraph.
IGNORE the last paragraph.

3. Jump Start, 9/16/15 Make sure you have your folder at your desk.
Get out your background essay and your Jamestown Fill in Notes from yesterday.
At the end of your Jamestown Notes, define the word Mercantilism.

4. The First Successful English Colony
Jamestown
The First Successful English Colony

5. Jamestown Begins
After Roanoke failed, individual Englishmen stopped funding colonies
Joint Stock Companies formed
A business in which investors combine their money in order to make a profit
Once a Joint Stock Company got a charter, they could establish a colony
A written contract from a government that gave the companies permission to create a colony

6. Jamestown- 1607 First permanent English settlement Began with problems
Bad location = swampy
Disease = malaria carrying mosquitoes
Colonists spent more time mining for gold than building shelter or planting crops
Climate
Summer = hot and humid
Winter = bitter cold

7. Jamestown- 1608 Only 38 of the original 100 survived the first year
John Smith takes over in January
Made physical improvements
Built a protective wall around the colony
Got the colonists working
“He that will not work shall not eat.”
Improved relations with the Powhatan
Got them to trade food with the settlers
Smith injured and had to leave in 1609
That same year about 500 more settlers arrived due to Jamestown’s success

8. Jamestown- 1609-1610 Growing tensions with the Powhatan
Indians stopped trading food
Increased attacks on the settlers
Colonists were afraid to leave the fort
“Starving Time” begins
Colonists ate rats, mice, snakes
Only 60 survived the second winter
The next spring they were saved again
Supply ships brought food, more settlers, and soldiers
A new governor also arrived who imposed more discipline

9. Jamestown- 1611-1612 John Rolfe arrives with tobacco
Tobacco became a cash crop
Grown in order to be sold for money instead of personal use
Became widespread and popular
From then on, Jamestown’s economy boomed

10. Jamestown Booms Colony became run as more of a business
Colonists wanted their share of the profit
Virginia Co. eventually let settlers own land
This caused them to work even harder on harvesting tobacco
First African slaves were brought and the population more than tripled in 2 years
Indentured servitude also became a way to increase the amount of workers
A person sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America

11. First Representative Government
Representative Government- a government where voters elect people to make the laws
Colonists started to want some input in their government
The Virginia Co. decided that representatives called burgesses would meet once a year to give the colonists some representation
House of Burgesses- first representative government in the American colonies

12. “Boil It Down”
Using the Background Essay from your Jump Start, your group will summarize the information provided in only 31 words.
Numbers and one letter words counts as a word
You cannot hyphen words that are not naturally hyphenated
You must first decide what relevant pieces of information must be included.
Must include:
Date Jamestown founded
Struggles
Successes

13. On Level ACROSTIC
Using the Background Essay and notes, your group will create a JAMESTOWN acrostic.
You must first decide what relevant pieces of information must be included.
Each letter must create a complete sentence.
J: Jamestown began in 1607 and was the first permanent English settlement.
We will vote on the winning acrostic as a class.
The winning group will receive Burk Bucks.