1. Objective: To examine the formation of the settlements of Roanoke Island and Jamestown.

2. Roanoke Island – “The Lost Colony” Roanoke Island was the first British settlement in North America.

3. Sir Walter Raleigh funded and authorized the expeditions to Roanoke Island. Roanoke Island was first settled by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.

4. Raleigh named the entire region Virginia. However, Roanoke Island is in present day North Carolina, where the capital is named Raleigh.

5. The settlement failed because of food shortages and troubles with the Native Americans and Spain. In 1587, John White returned and tries again to start a British settlement on Roanoke Island. John White returned to England later in 1587 for supplies. View the artwork of John White. Because of fighting between the British and the Spanish Armada, White was unable to return to the colony until 1590.

6. John White drawing of Pomeiooc Village, 1585

7. White returned in 1590 to find that everyone had vanished.

8. The Settlement of Jamestown The settlement of Jamestown was started in Virginia by the Virginia Company in 1607.

9. Captain John Smith saved Jamestown by: - bargaining for food with the Powhatan Indians. - calling for a “no work, no food” rule. - 2/3’s of the colonists died of disease and hunger.

10. Model of Jamestown

11. The colonist John Rolfe married the Powhatan princess Pocahontas. JOHN ROLFE AND POCAHONTAS early 1850s, J. W. Glass Pocohantas John Rolfe

12. This marriage brought peace between the colonists and the Powhatans, and ensured economic success for Jamestown after Pocahontas introduced tobacco to John Rolfe.