1. Topic: Assessing the English Path to Colonization: The Chesapeake Region

2. Factors encouraging British Colonization
Nationalism
Elizabeth I
Primogeniture
Enclosure Acts
Population growth
“surplus population”
Economic needs
Joint-Stock Company

3. England’s 1st Colony: Jamestown Chesapeake Bay
1585- failed colony of Roanoke (near Virginia)
1607: Jamestown founded
“Gentlemen” colony
Disease, starvation
: “Starving Time”

4. The growth of the Virginia colony
Captain John Smith’s harsh tactics
Rolfe and Pocahontas (Tobacco)
“Great Migration”
Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1685)
Virginia spreads out
Tobacco Plantations
Rise of “controlled” labor
African slavery?

5. Conclusion 3…2…1 3 Reasons for British colonization
2 Explain the conditions in both of the early British colonies
1 Reason why Jamestown survived