1. Buiding Jamestown
Chapter 3.4

2. Overview
What challenges did the first English colonies in North America face?
How did Virginia begin a tradition of representative government
What groups of people made up the new arrivals in Virginia after 1619.

3. Read
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4. The first English Colony
Sir Walter Raleigh with permission from Queen Elizabeth, 1585 founded the colony known as Roanoke.
Roanoke, an island off the coast of North Carolina.
The first settler quarreled and left back for England
Another group, settled under John White, supplies ran low, so White went back to England, returning 3 years latter to find no one.

5. Challenges and Survival of Jamestown
20 years passed until a new colony was established under the Virginia Company (1606).
A charter given by King James I gave rights to a person or company.
Allowed Virginia Company access to all lands from North Carolina to Potomac River

6. Challenges and Survival of Jamestown
Spring of colonist arrive establish a colony on the James River
Swampy areas contribute to Malaria
13 men governed the colony, but they quarreled.
Starvation (Colony did not plant enough food).
Tobacco made Jamestown profitable, colony began to grow.

7. Representative Government
Reforms of new governor brought to Jamestown to entice new settlers.
Male settlers could select a representative known as Burgesses.
An assembly of Burgesses was called the House of Burgesses. (Marking first representative government).

8. English Traditions Idea of political rights established
Came from Magna Carta in 1215 (King John).
King could not raise taxes without approval from nobles and church
Great Council became Parliament
House of Lords and House of Commons

9. Virginia Representative Tradition
Free Virginian had better rights than Englishmen, they did not have to own land to vote.
1670, changed rule to require only white men with land could vote.
Virginia Company charter influenced the “Great Charter”, which was the first representative document of North America.

10. New Arrivals Women in Virginia- African Americans
1608, Mistress Forrest and Anne Burris
1619, 100 women recruited
Women survived better than men
African Americans
1619- sold as laborers to work tobacco harvest
Anthony Johnson-First freeman working 250 acres of land, 5 servants

11. New Netherlands
Peter Mimuit led Dutch Settlers to the mouth of the Hudson River
Bought Manhattan from Native Americans, then called it New Amsterdam (New York)
Grew into busy port, profited from trade.
Trading posts like New Orange (Albany), established along the Hudson River