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English Settlement at Jamestown

English Settlement at Jamestown. Chapter 2 Section 2 Page 42. Sir Walter Raleigh. 13 Col. John Smith. Colonization. Joint-stock Companies – several investors pool money to support a colony. Jamestown funded by a joint-stock company Expedition led by John Smith

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English Settlement at Jamestown

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  1. English Settlement at Jamestown Chapter 2 Section 2 Page 42

  2. Sir Walter Raleigh

  3. 13 Col

  4. John Smith

  5. Colonization • Joint-stock Companies – several investors pool money to support a colony. • Jamestown funded by a joint-stock company • Expedition led by John Smith • Named in honor of King James of England • Disastrous start • Disease (from water) • Lack of food

  6. Pocahontas Powhatan

  7. Jamestown • Powhatan people were convinced by Smith to give colonist food. • Became alarmed at the number of colonist arriving & began killing colonist. • Only 60 colonist survived • New colonist arrived • Developed a new profitable crop… tobacco

  8. “Brown Gold” • Colonist mixed Native American tobacco w/ Brazilian tobacco resulting in a high quality tobacco. • Needed laborers to grow to crop. • Introduced the headright system – anyone who paid for their own or another’s passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land. • Indentured Servants – in exchange for passage to America, food, & shelter a person agreed to work for 7 yrs for the owner.

  9. First Africans arrived as indentured servants on a Dutch ship. Decades before Africans were used as slaves. First African Laborers

  10. Colonists clashed w/ Native Americans King James was disgusted at Virginia Declared the colony a royal colony – one under direct control of the king. Settlers Clash w/ Native Americans

  11. Virginia’s poor settlers felt oppressed by colony’s governor Berkeley. Imposed high taxes Frontier farmers had a dispute w/ Indians. Berkeley refused to help the farmers w/ the conflict. Nathaniel Bacon raised an army to fight Native Americans on the frontier. Berkeley declared the army illegal Bacon’s Rebellion

  12. Bacon’s Rebellion • Bacon marched on Jamestown & presented a list of grievances to the House of Burgesses (Virginia's Legislature) • March turned violent as Berkeley fled the colony. • When Bacon died, Berkeley returned to Jamestown. • Rebellion drew attention to Berkeley’s policies • Exposed the growing power of the colony’s former indentured servants.

  13. Read • Pages 42-48

  14. Answer the following questions • What difficulties did the English at Jamestown face? • How did the growing tobacco affect the Jamestown colony? • What was the headright system? • What was life like for colonies’ first African laborers? • How did the English colonists’ relationship with Native Americans differ from the Spaniards’ relationship with the Native Americans? • Why did Virginia become a royal colony? • What was life like for indentured servants in Virginia? • What were the causes and consequences of Bacon’s Rebellion?

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