1. By: Jason Phu, Camille Kinect, & Ming Ming Chan
Jamestown Colony
By: Jason Phu, Camille Kinect, & Ming Ming Chan

2. Key Terms & People Governor George Yeardley John Rolfe
House of Burgesses
Charter
Cash Crop
Tobacco
Indentured Servants
Virginia Company
Starving Time
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Indian Massacre of 1622
Enclosure Acts
Royal Colony
Governor George Yeardley
John Rolfe
Powhatan Indians
John Smith
King James I
Pocahontas
Lord De La Warr

4. History/Founding
Founding of 1st permanent English settlement in North America
Why Jamestown?
Gold & Silver
Wanted to compete with Spain
Sponsored by Virginia Company
Beginning of democracy
1st Charter of Virginia from King James I
Guaranteed settlers rights of Englishmen
Charter Colony
Shifting to Royal Colony
Hardship
“Starving Time”
Disease
Malnutrition

5. Government Marshal Law abolished Creation of legislative assembly
1619 Governor George Yeardley recommended 2 burgesses from each settlement to be elected to represent the citizens.
Included 6 men chosen by company representing 11 plantations.
Male property voters
1st meeting of the House of Burgesses was on July 30 – August
Formed the basis for the Representative Government.
Laws past involved tobacco & taxes
English Laws didn’t recognize hereditary slavery.

6. Economic
Business men granted a charter, arrives to Jamestown
No Gold or Silver
Not able to gather food
“Starving Time”
Barely made profits for company investors through trades with Powhatan Indians.
Economic struggles early
No Gold or Silver
No food
“Starving Time”
Barely made profits through trades with Powhatan Indians for company investors

7. Economic
1612 John Rolfe founded & established 1st successful cash crop : TOBBACO
Colonists hungered for land
Poor man’s crop
Mass production of tobacco required labor
Indentured Servants
Worked 4-5 years in the fields before granted freedom
African Slaves
Tobacco trade ensured Virginia’s survival & economy
Tobacco prices increased but collapsed in 1630

8. Religious Bring religion from England to Jamestown
Protestant Christianity
Book of Common Prayer
Building churches
Lord De La War repair church & governor
Captain Samuel Argall built another version of church
Anglicans mistrusted religious views of Native Americans & Africans

9. Culture/Social Life at Jamestown was hard Depended on Powhatan Indians
Decrease in population
Starving Time
Winter
Diseases & Illnesses
Captain John Smith became leader of Jamestown
“He who shall not work, shall not eat“
Expansion of Colony
Men were responsible for “outdoor” duties
Tobacco production
The women were responsible for “indoor” duties

10. Native American Relation
Powhatan Indians had mixed feelings about English men
Hostility
Attacked English ships before the they’ve actually landed.
Yet the Indians soon began to offer food and traditional Indian hospitality to the newcomers.
They grew dependent on the Indians for food.
Neglected planting corn & other work necessary to make their colony self-sufficient.
Traded with Powhatan Indians

11. Native American Relation
1610 First Anglo-Powhatan War
1610 De La Warr declaration of war
Both sides committed atrocities against the other
Destroyed Indian corn crops even though starving
“Irish Tactics”
Powhatan was finally forced into a truce
“Peace of Pocahontas”
Married John Rolfe
Solved conflict between Powhatans & English men
Indian Massacre of 1622

12. Review Events/People
1607: 107 colonist arrive sponsored by the Virginia company. Investors hoped to make profit from new world.
1608: Captain Christopher Newport, commander of the 1607 Jamestown expedition who had sailed back to England, returned to Virginia in January with settlers and goods.
John Smith was elected president of the governing council. Smith left for England the next fall (1609) to recover from a wound caused by a gunpowder explosion & never returned to Virginia.
John Smith was kidnapped & rescued when Pocahontas interposed her head between John Smith’s and the war clubs of his captors.
1610 First Anglo-Powhatan War. Both sides committed atrocities against the other.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe and an eight-year period of peace between the English colonists and Powhatan Indians ensued.
1612: 1st sample of tobacco cultivated by John Rolfe was shipped to England. Tobacco was the “golden weed” that ensured the economic survival of the colony.
1619: House of Burgesses assembly met at Jamestown on July 30. The 1st documented people of African origin in Virginia arrived in late summer aboard an English ship flying Dutch colors.
1624: King James revoked the charter of the Virginia Company, and Virginia became a royal colony.

13. Works Cited http://www.jamestown1607.org/democracy_v2.asp
ations/timeline/colonial/indians/