1. Jamestown and the Colony of Virginia

2. What makes a colony?
Government: Who is in charge and how do they lead?
Economics: How are they going to make money or get the things they need to survive?
Community: Who are the members of the community? What types of laws should govern a community? What should members of the community contribute?

3. The Virginia Company
1606- James I gives a land grant to the Virginia Company
Joint-stock company

4. The Virginia Company Two branches of the Joint Stock Company
London Branch (1607)
3 goals: Gold, God, Glory
Economics: make money to send back to London
Find a North-West passage to Asia
Patriotism
Outpost against Spain
Missionary Activities

5. The Virginia Company
April 1607 Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery reach Cape Henry
Home of Chesapeake Indians
May 14th 1607 find spot on James River
Name it Jamestown

6. Captain Newport’s Peace Mission
Puts some men to work
He takes 21 men on a “peace mission”
Learns that Chief Powhatan rules all area above Jamestown
Plants and cross, tries to make nice,
Returns to an attacked fort

7. Supply Ships arrive
Out of the 140 men who arrived only 40 remain
John Smith arrives
7-8 die during winter

8. 3 planting seasons later 500 people in the colony Starving
Fast Forward… winter
3 planting seasons later
500 people in the colony
Starving
Resort to cannibalism
60 of 500 survive

9. May 1610- Enter Lord De La Warr
Still not growing corn
Lord De La Warr and the “Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall”
Force the colony to work
(read p. 80)

10. What Next? March 1612 Colony and Company not making $$ 1613-1614
John Rolfe saves colony with Tobacco
1617 Begin Head right system:
Pay your own way get 50 acres of land
bring anyone else get an additional 50 acres
Bring Indentured Servants

11. What Next? Indentured Servants
Agree to work for 7 years to get a passage to new world
1619 1st Africans arrive
1619 House of Burgesses
1st representative assembly in the colonies
1622- Powhatan attacks
¼ of settlement gone

12. Virginia Company Fails
James I turns Virginia into a Royal Colony
Dissolves the House of Burgesses
Appoints his own people to run things
1639- Charles I reforms the House of Burgesses