1. Roanoke (The Lost Colony) and Jamestown

2. The Lost Colony
Sir Walter Raleigh given rights to claim land for Queen Elizabeth
1st sends Philip Amadas and Arthur Bartlowe to check out sites
Find Roanoke Island off coast of NC
They depend too much on NA’s, strain relations, 1st attempt fails

3. 2yrs later Raleigh sends John White and more men
White has to return to England for supplies and gets stuck there for 3yrs due to war with Spain
White left his daughter there and his grand daughter is born– Virginia Dare– 1st English child born in the new world

4. When White returns, the settlement is abandoned, supplies left, no bodies
Only clue is word “Croatoan” carved several places nearby
White can’t search because of a hurricane, returns to England
No one knows what happened to settlers, Croatan Indians kill them? Live with them? Went and settled in mainland NC?

5. Jamestown
Joint-stock-company- investors share risk by investing but also profit
Sailed into Chesapeake Bay and up James River
Founded with 105 men
Problems:
On a swamp- diseases and mosquitos
Surrounded by unfriendly tribes
People wanted to look for gold all the time

6. 1st year many die of disease/starvation
Captain John Smith takes over- whips people into shape (literally)
Parts of Pocahontas story true did save his life
She marries John Rolfe (new tobacco makes $)
She goes to England, dies of disease

7. Conflict with the Powhatan
At first help colonists, they take advantage and get greedy
Jamestown grows and takes more land
Small fights break out, many killed on both sides, colonists burn many Powhatan villages