Jamestown, VirginiaAmerica’s First Permanent

English Settlement1607

Chesapeake Bay

Albemarle Sound

The Virginia Company

• Joint- Stock Companies were companies backed by investors.

• King James I granted charters( for right to establish an American colony to the following companies):– Virginia Company of

London– Virginia Company of

Plymouth

Tidewater Virginia1607-1650

Jamestown

Questions to Think About?

• About how long was the Jamestown settlement after the Lost Colony, 1587?

• How was the Jamestown site similar or not similar to Roanoke Island?

Captain John Smith• By January, 1608 only 38

of the 100 original settlers were alive “Starving Time”

• During the “Starving Time” the settlers ate rodents and reverted to canabalism.

• John Smith brought order and government to Jamestown.

• He told settlers, “He that will not work, will not eat.”

• In 1609-injured in a gunpowder accident and had to return to England.

Lord Delaware Arrives

• Lord Delaware arrives as new governor with supplies and women:

• “The Brides Ships” bring women from England for Jamestown marriages.

John Rolfe and Tobacco

• He developed a high- grade tobacco that the colonists learned to grow and could be exported to England.

Africans Arrive in Jamestown

• The Dutch bring Africans to Jamestown for slave labor in 1619.

Indentured Servants Come to Jamestown

• These were Englishmen who had their passage paid to the colonies by an individual for whom they would have to work for 7 years.

Would this amount of time be worth coming to America? Why?

Who Was the Real Pocahontas?

Pocahontas “Playful Little Girl”

• Daughter of Indian Chief

• About 12 years old when English Arrived at Jamestown in 1607

• Married John Rolfe• Went to England• Died Tuberculosis at

Age 22 before leaving England

• 2 children

Baptism of Pocahontas, 1614Portrait Hangs in Rotunda of

US Capitol

Marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas

April, 1614

Virginia House of Burgesses

• Created in 1619 to provide an assembly of elected representatives. This was the first representative assembly in the American colonies.

Do you think a less democratic form of government wouldHave been better at Jamestown?

Jamestown Expands by 1620

Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676• Former indentured

colonists in Virginia protested against high taxes and not being able to settle on the western frontier

• Nathaniel Bacon and enraged settlers took over the House of Burgesses and burned Jamestown.

• Important in American history: One of the first protest against English authority in the British American colonies

Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginia 1676Early Protest Against English Authority

Virginia Capital Moves to Williamsburg, 1699

House of Burgesses Bruton Parish Church

College of William and Mary1693

America’s 2nd Oldest CollegeWilliamsburg, Virginia

Historic Jamestown, Virginia Today

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