Buiding Jamestown

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Buiding Jamestown

• Chapter 3.4

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Overview

• What challenges did the first English colonies in
  North America face?
• How did Virginia begin a tradition of
  representative government
• What groups of people made up the new arrivals in
  Virginia after 1619.

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The first English Colony

• Sir Walter Raleigh with permission from Queen
  Elizabeth, 1585 founded the colony known as
  Roanoke.
• Roanoke, an island off the coast of North
  Carolina.
• The first settler quarreled and left back for
  England
• Another group, settled under John White, supplies
  ran low, so White went back to England, returning
  3 years latter to find no one.

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Challenges and Survival of Jamestown

• 20 years passed until a new colony was
  established under the Virginia Company (1606).
• A charter given by King James I gave rights to a
  person or company.
• Allowed Virginia Company access to all lands from
  North Carolina to Potomac River

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Challenges and Survival of Jamestown

• Spring of 1607- 105 colonist arrive establish a
  colony on the James River
• Swampy areas contribute to Malaria
• 13 men governed the colony, but they quarreled.
• Starvation (Colony did not plant enough food).
• Tobacco made Jamestown profitable, colony began
  to grow.

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Representative Government

• Reforms of 1619- new governor brought to
  Jamestown to entice new settlers.
• Male settlers could select a representative known
  as Burgesses.
• An assembly of Burgesses was called the House of
  Burgesses. (Marking first representative
  government).

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English Traditions

• Idea of political rights established
• Came from Magna Carta in 1215 (King John).
• King could not raise taxes without approval from
  nobles and church
• Great Council became Parliament
• House of Lords and House of Commons

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Virginia Representative Tradition

• Free Virginian had better rights than Englishmen,
  they did not have to own land to vote.
• 1670, changed rule to require only white men with
  land could vote.
• Virginia Company charter influenced the Great
  Charter, which was the first representative
  document of North America.

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New Arrivals

• Women in Virginia-
• 1608, Mistress Forrest and Anne Burris
• 1619, 100 women recruited
• Women survived better than men
• African Americans
• 1619- sold as laborers to work tobacco harvest
• Anthony Johnson-First freeman working 250 acres
  of land, 5 servants

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New Netherlands

• Peter Mimuit led Dutch Settlers to the mouth of
  the Hudson River
• Bought Manhattan from Native Americans, then
  called it New Amsterdam (New York)
• Grew into busy port, profited from trade.
• Trading posts like New Orange (Albany),
  established along the Hudson River