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Jamestown Colony

Jamestown Colony. The First Permanent English Settlement in America. Jamestown Colony. Chartered by King James I Virginia Company of London James Fort Susan Constant Godspeed Discovery. Powhatan Confederacy. ~14,000 inhabitants Chief Powhatan Algonquian-speaking Initially friendly.

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Jamestown Colony

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  1. Jamestown Colony The First Permanent English Settlement in America

  2. Jamestown Colony • Chartered by King James I • Virginia Company of London • James Fort • Susan Constant • Godspeed • Discovery

  3. Powhatan Confederacy • ~14,000 inhabitants • Chief Powhatan • Algonquian-speaking • Initially friendly

  4. Captain John Smith • Mapped Chesapeake Bay & New England • Leader of Virginia Colony, September 1608- August 1609 • Hard work & Determination

  5. Jamestown Conditions

  6. Supplies in Jamestown • Unaccustomed to work • Insufficient supplies • Mining • Arrival of new settlers

  7. The New Settlers • January 1608 – 100 more settlers • October 1608 – 70 more settlers – including first women

  8. Powhatan • Wahunsenacawh • Inherited 4-6 tribes • Assembled ~30 tribes • Confederacy of Powhatan • Father of Pocahontas • Brother of Opechancanough

  9. George Percy • High social rank • Denied seat on council • Smith’s subordinate • Presidency of Colony • Starving Time • Illness

  10. The Starving Time

  11. Threats of Military Force • Powhatan alarmed • Smith threatens force • Powhatan abiding by same rules as Smith

  12. Pocahontas

  13. Pocahontas

  14. Pocahontas • Matoaka • Rebecca • John Smith • John Rolfe • Anglo-Powhatan War

  15. John Rolfe • Tobacco farmer • Cultivation of new strain • Marriage to Pocahontas • Brings temporary peace

  16. William Strachey • One of few first-hand descriptions of Virginia in this period. • Eyewitness of shipwreck on shipwreck. Inspired Shakespeare’s The Tempest

  17. Anglo-Powhatan Wars • Openchancanough • Deteriorating relationships • Pocahontas • Jamestown Massacre of 1622 • 3 wars • Disintegration of Confederacy • Treaty of 1646 • Ushers in 30 years of relative peace

  18. House of Burgesses

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