1. Get out your homework and notes from yesterday!!!

2. England’s Southern Colonies pg. 44-49

3. Jamestown: 1st successful English colony 1607 (others had failed)
Motives: want to find gold and silver
Virginia Company: JSC that est. Jamestown
Better location, navigable rivers,
Powerful and organized natives in the area…
Wanted to turn “wilderness” into profitable farmland

4. One man was so hungry he killed, salted, and ate his wife!!!
2. Struggles with Settlement
Unsanitary conditions  disease (malaria, dysentery, typhoid)
Live down stream from Native American tribe)  contaminated water
“starving time” = period of famine
planted wheat and searched for gold… no gold in Virginia, and wheat doesn’t grow!
Only 20% of people survived after 15 years!
Pat-a-waun
One man was so hungry he killed, salted, and ate his wife!!!

5. #wcw #pocahontas #jamestownlovers
History vs
Hollywood

6. Pocahontas was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the chief of tribal nations in the region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him. The general consensus of historians is that this story, as told by Smith, is untrue.
Pocahontas was captured by the English during colonial hostilities in 1613, and held for ransom. During her captivity, she converted to Christianity and took the name Rebecca. When the opportunity arose for her to return to her people, she chose to remain with the English. In April 1614, she married tobacco planter John Rolfe, and in January 1615 had his son.
In 1616, the Rolfes traveled to London. Pocahontas was presented to English society as an example of the "civilized savage" in hopes of stimulating investment in the Jamestown settlement. She became somewhat of a celebrity. In 1617, the Rolfes set sail for Virginia, but Pocahontas died of unknown causes around the age of possibly 22. She was buried in a church in the United Kingdom, but the exact location of her grave is unknown.

7. 3. Economic Development Get a job Get a job
John Smith: captain whose leadership saved colony
“He who does not work will not eat”
Established trade with natives
John Rolfe: father of tobacco
Labor shortage  slave trade
Labor shortage  Indentured servants… work 3-7 years for travel, housing, food, etc
Wealthy colonists acted as land owners = worked harder and more efficiently because they saw land as theirs
***Tobacco crop thrives in hot, humid climate. Massive profits from the crop in other parts of the world PUT VIRGINIA ON THE MAP!
***Tobacco crop thrives in hot, humid climate. Massive profits from the crop in other parts of the world PUT VIRGINIA ON THE MAP!

8. Get out Southern Colonies Notes from yesterday!!!!

9. Unit Objectives: You can answer so far: Vocab: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 14, 15
Questions:1-6…15…18-19

10. House of Burgesses

11. 4. Political Development
Demand for land  war with Indians  increased need for local government
House of Burgesses: 1st legislative body (make laws) of the American colonies. Vote on elected representatives, made laws/taxes
Male landowners over 17 could vote
The British Crown takes over VA and makes them 1st royal colony…wanted their success ($$$)

12. Who started the Jamestown colony and why was it a good location?
What were problems they had to overcome?
What caused massive population increase to the colony?
What was the House of Burgesses and why was it created?

13. #TBT Jamestown Skeletons!!!
virginia-skeletons/index.html
#TBT Jamestown Skeletons!!!

14. Let’s read about Bacon’s Rebellion

15. Other Southern Colonies
Maryland
The Carolinas
Georgia
Who established Maryland and as what type of colony?
Lord Baltimore, proprietary
Explain the religious conflict.
Refuge (safe place) for Catholics
Explain how Carolina moved from a proprietary colony to a royal colony.
Demanded to have the crown take over
Who made up the first settlers of Georgia?
English debtors, refugees, poor traders, criminals…penal colony
When did GA become a royal colony?
1752