Jamestown 1607

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Jamestown 1607
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The Age of Exploration

• The Age of Exploration or Age of Discovery
  officially began in the early 15th century
  (1400s) and lasted until the 17th century
  (1600s).
• Age of Exploration is characterized as a time
  when Europeans began exploring the world by sea
  in search of trading partners, new goods, and new
  trade routes.

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Early Exploration

• Many nations were looking for goods such as
  silver and gold but one of the biggest reasons
  for exploration was the desire to find a new
  route to trade spices, tea and silk which could
  be found in Asia. (The Northwest Passage.)

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England Must Compete

• Once the New World was discovered Spain and
  France began to claim as much land as they could,
  and England knew it also had to compete.

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We must compete with Spain and France!!!! We have
to claim land in the New World for England
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Collection of Data

• Early on, European countries (usually the king or
  queen) paid for expeditions and sent out
  explorers simply to have them return to Europe
  with details of the New World and possibly new
  findings. The explorers were not suppose to stay.

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Colonization

• However, as time went on European countries
  saw the importance of creating towns that could
  be used as a way to protect their claim to the
  land and as a trading post to send things back
  and forth to Europe.

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Colonization

• Soon, many European countries started sending
  people to the New World with the intent to have
  them stay there and begin to build towns called
  colonies. These colonies would be under the
  control of the king or queen.

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• By the early 1600s, England began to create
  (establish) colonies along the Atlantic Ocean

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke

• England tried many times to set up colonies.
  However, the colonies seemed to fail over and
  over again. One of the most famous failed colony
  is the Lost Colony of Roanoke.

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Roanoke The Lost Colony

• In 1587, a man by the name of Sir Walter Raleigh
  tried to start a colony on Roanoke Island off the
  coast of present-day North Carolina.
• After a few months the colonists ran low on
  supplies so they sent a handful of people back to
  England to get more. However, it took more than
  3 years for the group to return to Roanoke from
  England and when they did it was too late.
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CROATOAN

• When the group finally returned to Roanoke, they
  found no one. Every colonists had disappeared and
  everything was destroyed. The only thing
  they found was the word CROATOAN carved into
  one of the only doorposts still standing. To this
  day, no one knows what happened or the meaning
  of the word croatoan

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Jamestown 1607

• After the failure of Roanoke, more than twenty
  years passed by before England was able to try
  again. In June of 1606, King James I granted a
  charter for the Virginia Company of London to try
  and establish a English settlement in the
  Chesapeake region of North America.

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Where do the English Land?

• So, in May 1607, 104 Englishmen working for
  the Virginia Company, dropped anchor and in
  Jamestown, Virginia. There the colonists built a
  triangle-shaped log fort on a swampy peninsula in
  the James River, 60 miles from the mouth of the
  Chesapeake Bay.

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Problems in Jamestown

• Almost immediately Jamestown faced many
  challenges. The first of which was its location.

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Swampy Land

• When they reached Virginia they decided to settle
  on a swampy peninsula for safety. However, during
  the summer the area began to swarm with
  mosquitoes that carried diseases like malaria
  which leaves people extremely weak and with achy
  muscles and headaches. Even today malaria often
  leads to death if untreated.

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Location of Jamestown
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The Lazy Crew

• The problems were made even worse because the men
  who came over were lazy businessmen hoping to get
  rich quickly by finding gold. Most of them knew
  nothing about farming and were not willing to
  work very hard.

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Im too good to do hard workLet the servants do
it.
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Time are Hard in Jamestown

• As the food they brought with them started to
  run out they began trying to trade with the
  Native Americas for corn and meat but the Indians
  in the area would sooner see the English starve
  to death than trade. Hunger and disease took
  control and every day another body was carried to
  the graveyard.

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I dont trust these menLet them starve
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John Smith Takes Over

• In 1608, a young man by the name of John Smith
  took control of Jamestown. He told the lazy men
  If any would not work neither should he eat.
  The men were hungry, so they worked.

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Smith goes to look for food for the men of
Jamestown
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John Smith and Pocahontas

• While looking for food the new Capitan John Smith
  was captured by the Powhatan tribe of Native
  Americans. Smith was about to be clubbed to death
  
• when a young girl leapt out and saved him.
  This young girl was named Pocahontas.
• Smith wrote about Pocahontas in his journal
  saying, She, next under God was the instrument
  to preserve the colony from death, famine and
  confusion.

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Pocahontas

• Overtime, with the help of Pocahontas, the
  daughter of the powerful Indian leader, John
  Smith was able to trade for food. This trade
  would helped Jamestown survive.

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The Starving Time

• Jamestowns troubles, however were far from over.
  In the fall of 1609, John Smith was forced to go
  home to England after being injured by a
  gunpowder explosion. Without Smith and Pocahontas
  things began to quickly fall apart.

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Things in Jamestown begin to fall apart
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Winter hits
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We didnt prepare well enough for the winter..
I miss Smith
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The Starving Time

• By the fall of 1609 the remaining settlers failed
  to plant crops early enough to harvest for the
  winter and trading had stopped. Many people in
  Jamestown were starving to death. The years
  1609-1610 have become known as the Starving
  Time.

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The Starving Time

• Food was in such short supply that graves were
  robbed and the bodies eaten. One colonists even
  murdered his wife to feast on her flesh. Stories
  of eating dogs, rats and even human corpses to
  survive express the difficulties of life in
  Jamestown. By spring only 60 people in Jamestown
  were still alive.

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Jamestown Survives

• Learning of the hard times in Jamestown, three
  ships full of supplies, 150 new colonists and 100
  soldiers arrived in Jamestown. Furthermore, one
  of the colonists, John Rolfe soon figured out
  they could plant tobacco and sell to it back in
  England at great prices.

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Tobacco A major Cash Crop

• Tobacco quickly became what everyone in
  Jamestown grew. By 1630 more than 15 million
  pounds of tobacco was sent back to England every
  year. John Rolfe had grown a major cash crop (a
  plant grown to make money not to eat) and this
  crop would eventually save the economy of
  Jamestown.

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The 1st Permanent Colony

• Over time the colony of Jamestown grew stronger
  and stronger making it the first permanent and
  successful colony in what would later become the
  United States of America

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