Thanks to successful campaigns against the Spanish in Europe, England was able to begin competing with Spain for economic superiority in North

America.

HOW DID THE ENGLISH GET A FOOTHOLD IN NORTH

AMERICA?

THEN

IN THE 1500’s THE SPANISH LAID CLAIM TO MUCH OF NORTH AMERICA

IN 1588 THE ENGLISH FOOL THE SPANISH ARMADA IN EUROPE

(OUCH!)

ENGLAND NOW CAN GRAB A PIECE OF THE AMERICAN PIE!

SO…

WHY DID THE ENGLISHWANT TO COLONIZE NORTH

AMERICA?Increase trade

Import raw materials

Find a passage through the Americas to the Indies

Establish the Protestant faith in America

Find gold

REASONS FOR ENGLAND TO COLONIZE NORTH AMERICA

REASONS AN ENGLISHMAN MIGHT

GO TO AMERICA

Find economic opportunities Seek gold

Escape religious persecution

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I who gave Sir Walter

Raleigh permission to set

up a colony at Roanoke.

In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh set up a colony at Roanoke. The colony failed.

Urged by the artist John White, Raleigh tried again in 1587, this time with 100 settlers including members of White’s family, who disappeared

without a trace. In 1607, the Plymouth Company sponsored a colony in Maine. It also failed.

Portrait of Walter Raleigh, near age 32, by Nicholas

Hilliard, c.1585

A map of the Roanoke

area, by John White

A sketch by John White of Indians at Roanoke.

In 1607, the Virginia Company of London financed a colony at Jamestown, Virginia. In 1608, John Smith took control of the Jamestown colony. 800 more colonists arrived in 1609, and

by 1621 Jamestown had grown to more than 2,000.

James I of England from the

period 1603–1613, authorized the James Town settlement after

whom it is named.

Arrival at Jamestown

                                               

     

The Inside of the First Church in Jamestown, where the first law in

America was made

The Native American warriors took Captain Smith prisoner.

                                                                                          

FOR UNDERSTANDING

In 1607, the Virginia Company of London financed a colony at______,

Virginia. In 1608, ______ took control of that colony.

• 1) Jonestown, Jim Jones

• 2) Johnstown, John Smith

• 3) Roanoke, John White

• 4) Jamestown, John Smith

Which of the following was not a reason why England set up colonies in North America:

• 1) Increase trade

• 2) Find gold

• 3) Establish the Catholic faith in America

• 4) Find a passage through the Americas to the Indies

Thanks to successful campaigns against the Spanish in Europe, ______ was able to

begin competing with Spain for economic superiority in North

America.

• 1) Mexico

• 2) England

• 3) The Netherlands.

• 4) Portugal

Many English colonists voyaged to America for all the

following reasons except:

• 1) Establish a mission system.

• 2) Seek gold.

• 3) Escape religious persecution.

• 4) Find economic opportunities.

In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh set up a colony at______. The

colony failed. Urged by the artist______, Raleigh tried

again in 1587.

• 1) Connecticut, Michelangelo

• 2) Jamestown, King James

• 3) Roanoke, John White

• 4) Plymouth, John Rolfe

• Pocahontas and John Smith were both young adults when they met.

• Pocahontas had an amazing figure, and wore a leather minidress with one shoulder strap. She had a tattoo.

• Pocahontas was a girl of 11; Smith was a man of 28.

• Pocahontas was a naked child when she visited John Smith in Jamestown. For Winter warmth, she would wear a mantle; one of hers was covered with feathers. When she turned 12, she started wearing a leather dress with or without one shoulder strap. Dresses were often decorated with pictures of animals, birds, or tortoises. She probably did have tattoos.

• John Smith was tall and clean shaven. He wore tight pants and some armor.

• The colonists sailed on the Susan Constant

• John Smith was short, had a full beard, and wore puffy pants (like everyone else). He did wear the type of armor shown.

• The colonists sailed in three ships: the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery.

In 1612, John Rolfe developed a high-grade tobacco that the colonists learned to grow. It

became very popular in England.

Settlers were offered 50 acres of land if they paid for their own passage to the colonies. Those who could not afford

passage to America, borrowed money and became indentured servants, who worked for many years in order to pay back the

loans.

The strict rule of the colonist’s Governor forced his

replacement by an elected assembly called the House of

Burgesses - the first legislative assembly in the American

colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the

church at Jamestown..

As the number of colonists increased, their relationship with the Powhatan natives grew worse. In an effort to

improve relations between the English and the Powhatan, John Rolfe married Chief

Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in 1614.

Sir Walter Raleigh

John Smith colony at Jamestown

John Rolfe

colony at Roanoke

John White

Pocahontas

A 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe.

The original English caption (not visible here) reads "Matoaks als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and baptized in the Christian faith, and wife to the

wor.th Mr. Joh. Rolff."The inscription under the portrait reads "Aetatis suae 21 A. 1616", Latin for "at the age of 21 in the

year 1616".

Chief Powhatan in a longhouse

at Werowoco

moco (detail of John

Smith map, 1612)

Fed up of the ever expanding colonists, the Powhatan natives killed hundreds of Jamestown’s

residents in 1622.

Indian massacre of 1622, depicted in a 1628 woodcut

Nathaniel Bacon led a group of landless settlers against

Governor William Berkeley, and burned Jamestown to the

ground in 1676, in a revolt that came to be known as Bacon’s

rebellion.

Portrait of Nathaniel

Bacon.

FOR UNDERSTANDING

In 1612, ______ developed a high-grade ______ that the colonists learned to grow.

• 1) John Rolfe, corn

• 2) John Rolfe, tobacco

• 3) John Smith, tobacco

• 4) John Ratcliffe, corn

Fed up of the ever expanding colonists, ______ killed

hundreds of Jamestown’s residents in 1622.

• 1) the Powhatan natives

• 2) Nathaniel Bacon

• 3) the Spanish

• 4) Queen Elisabeth I

The strict rule of the colonist’s Governor forced his replacement by an elected assembly called the

______ .

• 1) Court of Burgesses

• 2) Court of Charles I

• 3) House of Commons

• 4) House of Burgesses

Those who could not afford passage to America, borrowed

money and became______, who worked for many years in

order to pay back the loans.

• 1) Puritans

• 2) indentured servants

• 3) wealthy land owners

• 4) Free Masons

Nathaniel Bacon led a group of landless settlers against Governor

William Berkeley, and burned Jamestown to the ground in 1676, in a revolt that came to be known

as______ .

• 1) the great migration

• 2) Bacon’s rebellion

• 3) the charge of the light brigade

• 4) the boxer rebellion

John Rolfe married Chief Powhatan’s daughter, ______

in 1614.

• 1) Nakatani

• 2) Pocatani

• 3) Pocahatan

• 4) Pocahontas