1. Knights Charge 9/13
Take a Knights Charge from the bin as well as a blank map of the 13 colonies
Please sit in your assigned seats

3. Knights Charge 9/14
Take your notes out from yesterday

4. The Lost Colony, Jamestown, & Bacon’s Rebellion
The Beginnings of English Colonization
The Lost Colony, Jamestown, & Bacon’s Rebellion

5. If we started a colony… What would we need???
Resources (water, food, supplies, general survival items, etc.)
Jobs
Rules/Laws
Religion?
Economy?
Government
Who gets to go? Men only?
Animals?
Crops?
Weapons?

6. Reasons vs. Realities of Going to the New World

7. Moving to the “New World”
Why Move to the New World?
Money- Could own your own land and farm or start a business
Religious Freedom- escaping religious percecution
Overall, people were in search for a better life

8. Joint- Stock Companies
Investors would buy “shares” of a company and this money would help build the colonies.
Investors hoped to make money off the success of the colonies.

9. Virginia Company of London

10. Roanoke Colony- The Lost Colony
Created by leader Sir Walter Raleigh
Purpose of the colony was to make money
England’s first attempt at a colony in New World
Raleigh's colony simply vanished and no one knows what happened to it
The truth remains a mystery today

12. The Lost Colony of Roanoke
After establishing the colony, Gov. John White returned to England to get additional supplies in 1587.
Because of the ongoing war with the Spanish, White was unable to return until 1590.
Upon his return, all 117 men and women had vanished from the colony.
What was left was a carving in a tree which read “CROATOAN”

13. The Lost Colony

14. Five popular theories…

15. Jamestown First successful English colony established in 1607
Created to make money and find gold by the Virginia Company of London
In its first years, the colony struggled and almost failed
Until the English discovered the use of…

16. Tobacco

17. Jamestown

18. Virginia House of Burgesses
After Jamestown was beginning to flourish from the sale of tobacco, the colony was in need of government
The Virginia Company created the Virginia House of Burgesses

19. Virginia House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses became the first representative government in North America
The people of Jamestown elected officials who would serve on the House of Burgesses

20. Indentured Servants First labor force in the colonies
They would agree to work 5-7 years in exchange for passage to the “New World”
Provided a way for the poor to work their way into the colonies
After 5-7 years of service, they were free

21. Bacon’s Rebellion First rebellion in the American colonies
Nathaniel Bacon was angered by Native American attacks in the frontier among other things
Virginia’s British governor was driven away
Rebels consisted of colonists and indentured servants
Indentured Servitude comes to an end and slavery becomes main form of labor

22. You could have more of them Slaves were permanent
Transition to slavery
Indentured servants were not permanent and caused problems after freedom
Slaves were cheap
You could have more of them
Slaves were permanent