The Early Colonies have Mixed Success

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The Early Colonies have Mixed Success

• While TWO early English Colonies Failed Jamestown
  survived through individual effort and Hard Work

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Key Terms and Key People

• Key Terms
• Joint-Stock Company
• Charter
• Jamestown
• Indentured Servant
• House of Burgesses
• Bacons Rebellion

• Key People
• John Smith

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A Whole new World

• As England defeat Spain they plan colonies in the
  Americas
• Guided by Mercantilism, England hoped to gain
  trade markets in the new world and a new supply
  of raw materials
• Others Hoped to gain opportunity, gold, or
  religious freedom

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Meet Virginia

• England sets up the colony of Virginia through
  Sir Walter Raleigh at present day Roanoke
• When Native Americans feared losing their land
  they cut off Roanokes food supply
• As Roanoke tried to re-establish itself, Native
  Americans would defend their land

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Plymouth Rockand roll

• The Plymouth Company would try to establish a
  colony in Maine
• Sagadahoc would be founded with convicts from
  English jails
• Harsh winters, Food Shortages, and Fights with
  Native Americans led to Plymouths Failure

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Taking stock of a situation

• Learning that ONE person could not finance a
  colony, Joint Stock Companies
• Investors would fund the colonies and share the
  profits and losses
• England Would issue charters to the Virginia
  companies of London and Plymouth

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This is OUR town

• The Virginia Company would send 100 settlers to
  found Jamestown
• Diseases and the Search for gold ravaged the
  colony as they neglected to build houses or grow
  food
• Humidity and Cold also added to the early failure
  as a colony

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Tobacco Road

• John Smith would arrive in Jamestown and turned
  it into a hard working colony
• As Native Americans stopped trading food with
  settlers, the starving times left Jamestown with
  60 Settlers
• Tobacco, created by John Rolfe, would transform
  Jamestown, but leave colonists seeking a share of
  the profits

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Rocky Marriage

• As Jamestown grew, John Rolfe would marry
  Pocahontas to improve relationships with the
  Powhatan tribe
• As Native Americans lost more land, the Powhatan
  tribe would kill 100s of Jamesown settlers

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Power to the People

• As Settlers bought shares of land in the new
  colonies, and as Africans came to Jamestown, the
  population more than tripled
• Those who could not afford land would become
  Indentured Servants to earn their own way in the
  colony
• After becoming upset with the governor of
  Jamestown they demanded representation
• The House of Burgesses would represent the people
  and become the first representational government

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Shaken Bacon

• Former Indentured Servants begin to resent
  Wealthy Landowners and try to gain land from
  Native Americans
• Nathanial Bacon tried to urge William Berkley to
  approve a war against Native Americans for land
  and plantations
• Bacons Rebellion led to a revolt on Jamestown
  but also led to the deaths of Bacons Followers
• The House of Burgesses would pass laws to help
  end Tyranny and plant the seeds of independence

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