jamestown the first successful english colony. the mystery of roanoke roanoke was the first attempt...
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Jamestown
The First Successful English Colony
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The Mystery of Roanoke
• Roanoke was the first attempt at an English Settlement.
• John White was their leader. He brought 117 settlers to an island right off the coast of North Carolina
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What happened next?• The colonists ran low on
supplies. John White went back to England to get the supplies. He promised to return in a few months.
• When John White got back to England, he discovered that they were in a war with Spain. John White had to volunteer his boat to help fight the war. He was not able to return to Roanoke for three years.
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Three years later…
• John White returned to Roanoke, and no one was there.
• The only clue that was left was the word “CROATOAN” carved on a tree.
• What happened to the 117 settlers is a mystery to this day.
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Now, onto Jamestown
• More than 20 years passed before England again tried to establish a colony in North America.
• In 1606, the Virginia Company got a charter from the king to start a colony.
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A Charter was a legal document
Signed by the King
That allowed you to start a colony in a very
specific place.
Hey, Ya’ll go start your colony right over there. I want to keep my eye
on you!
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A bad start for the people of Jamestown
• The 105 Colonists arrived in present day Virginia in 1607.
• Jamestown was named after the King of England during this time period, King James I.
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A bad start for the people of Jamestown
• First, colonists realized that their charter was in the middle of a giant swamp. Many people were stung by Mosquitoes and died of malaria.
• To make matters worse, the Virginia Company had chosen 13 stupid men to govern Jamestown. (I bet they were the first ones eaten)
Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of
an Englishman
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Still more problems
• Also, many of the settlers spent their time digging for gold instead of planting crops.
• Captain John Smith began enforcing strict rules. You don’t work, you don’t eat.
• Smith also traveled to nearby Native tribes to get food. When natives wouldn’t give him any, Smith violently forced them to.
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Finally, the Money rolls in
• Even after John Rolfe married Pocahontas, and made peaceful relations with the Natives again, the settlers still starved for several years.
• Even though they were starving, the people of Jamestown did find a way to make money. They grew Tobacco. Now they were starving but they were rich.
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Do you know what Representative Government is?
This means that you elect people…
And those people vote for you.
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We elect people into congress, and they vote on laws for us.
We also vote in the president, and he represents us too.
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Representative Government in Jamestown
• Wanting to attract more people to Jamestown, the King allowed the people of Jamestown to elect their own representatives to govern the colony. They called it the House of Burgesses.
• This is important because it is the beginning of representative government in the United States.
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The First Slaves
• The first African slaves come by 1619.
• By the late 1600s, Virginia had set up laws allowing white colonists to enslave Africans.