1. Introduction to English Colonization
The Settlements of Jamestown & Plymouth

2. Vocabulary Social: deals with people Economic: deals with money
Political: deals with government
Geographic: deals with land
Physical: deals with describing the land
Political: deals with the exact location of places

3. Roanoke “The Lost Colony”
1585
Led by Sir Walter Raleigh
Located near present day
North Carolina
Disaster of the colony made it difficult for other Englishmen to risk another attempt at colonization
: A settlement of people
Colony

4. The Lost Colony of Roanoke

6. Virginia Company of London
Settled in northern part of Virginia
1607 established Jamestown (1st permanent English settlement) by John Smith at the mouth of the James River in Chesapeake Bay
Located in a swamp
Had mosquitoes
Settlers got sick from water

7. John Rolfe introduced tobacco to them in 1612 and helped the settlement survive
1619 Virginia House of Burgesses created-1st example of a representative government in North America (people select others to make decisions)

8. JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA 1607

9. Jamestown, Virginia
1607

13. Puritans
People who wanted to purify (clean) the church

14. Separatists
People who wanted to separate from the Anglican Church in order to establish their own church

15. VIRGINIA COMPANY OF PLYMOUTH
Pilgrims (Puritans/Separatists) left Europe b/c they were seeking religious freedom
Arrived in 1620 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and established Plymouth

16. Signed the Mayflower Compact (1st example of self-government)
They agreed to make and follow their own laws