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With exploration booming, the Spanish & French are all over the place claiming lands (Territorial dibs) and starting permanent colonies
The English arrive late on the scene in the 1570s/80s
In fact, the Spanish and French both claimed the lands known as NC today long before the English!
Italian explorer, commissioned by France
Discovers the lands now known as North Carolina in 1524First European since around 1000 AD to explore the Atlantic coast of North America around the Carolinas
Giovanni da Verrazzano
De Soto
Hernando de Soto April 1540 led an expedition across the
Savannah River Moved towards present day North Carolina Headed west & died in Mississippi River Area
• 1st European to see the interior of South Carolina
Chapter 4
English aristocrat and explorerFunded his own voyagesSupported by Queen
Elizabeth I
1584 - Landed at Roanoke Island Made connections with
local Native AmericansDecided to bring settlers
back
Sir Walter Raleigh & the Roanoke Colony
1585 – 108 soldiers come to Roanoke to establish first colony
1586 – Colonists and Native Americans at “war,” and colony is abandoned
1587 – Second settlement attempted117 colonists come to Roanoke
Governor John White
Roanoke Colony, cont.
1590 – White returns to Roanoke, but finds the colony has disappeared
Roanoke, cont.
• 1587 – John White returns to England to get supplies
1st Permanent English Colony
After the Roanoke Colony failure, the English established their permanent colony at Jamestown in VA
Colony became wealthy due to the sale of tobacco
The “Jamestown” Colony
1606 Virginia- named
after the “Virgin Queen”
Began by Virginia Company (granted a charter by King)
1st Permanent English Colony
Charter
Document granted from English king, granting sovereignty
Questions: What is sovereignty? What powers are gained through a charter? Why were charters necessary?
Virginia Company: a Joint Stock Company - different stakes can be bought and owned by shareholders
By 1618, colonials are granted a House of Burgesses – 1st Representative Democracy in New World
Jamestown Timelinehttp://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html
1. 1606King James I issues a charter to the Virginia Company for land on the mid-Atlantic Coast
2. 1607• May 13: 104 male settlers arrive
at Jamestown, the first permanent England settlement in the New World
• May 26: Indian attacks• December 10: Capt. John Smith
is captured• December 29: John Smith is
saved by Pocahontas before Powhatan
Jamestown Timelinehttp://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html
3.1608Settlers at Jamestown die in great numbers (38 of 104 remain)
4. 1609• 500 more
settlers come to Virginia
• Relations with Native Americans grow tense
5. 1610September-May: The “Starving Time” reduces population to 60 (from 500-600)
Jamestown Timelinehttp://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html
6.1612John Rolfe tries a crop of tobacco to help save the Jamestown settlement
7. 1614John Rolfe marries Pocahontas
8. 1618-1623
The “Great Migration” increases Jamestown’s population from 400 to 4,500
Jamestown Timelinehttp://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html
9. 1619VA House of Burgesses meets for the first time
The beginnings of NC
Outgrowth in VA leads to people migrating south to new lands… helps push for a new land grant for what becomes known as the Carolina Colony
King Charles I Colonies of Maryland,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts created under his rule
1628 -- Granted charters to colonize lands south of Virginia, named for himself – Carolana
The Carolana charter, known as the “Heath Patent” granted to Sir Robert Heath
Heath’s plans to settle fail, contract eventually is voided during English Civil War
King Charles II Due to lack of population,
Charles II sold Heath Patent to the “8 Lord Proprietors,” 8 wealthy lords in England
Proprietor = owner Renamed the colony
Carolina, in honor of Charles II
Promoted populating the colony through profit incentive
NOW, the Carolina Colony will be permanently settled!