Jamestown, Virginia America

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Jamestown, VirginiaAmericas First Permanent
English Settlement1607
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Chesapeake Bay
Albemarle Sound
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The Virginia Company

• Joint- Stock Companies were companies backed by
  investors.
• King James I granted charters( for right to
  establish an American colony to the following
  companies)
• Virginia Company of London
• Virginia Company of Plymouth

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Tidewater Virginia1607-1650
Jamestown
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Questions to Think About?

• About how long was the Jamestown settlement after
  the Lost Colony, 1587?
• How was the Jamestown site similar or not similar
  to Roanoke Island?

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Captain John Smith

• By January, 1608 only 38 of the 100 original
  settlers were alive Starving Time
• During the Starving Time the settlers ate
  rodents and reverted to canabalism.
• John Smith brought order and government to
  Jamestown.
• He told settlers, He that will not work, will
  not eat.
• In 1609-injured in a gunpowder accident and had
  to return to England.

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Lord Delaware Arrives

• Lord Delaware arrives as new governor with
  supplies and women
• The Brides Ships bring women from England for
  Jamestown marriages.

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John Rolfe and Tobacco

• He developed a high- grade tobacco that the
  colonists learned to grow and could be exported
  to England.

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Africans Arrive in Jamestown

• The Dutch bring Africans to Jamestown for slave
  labor in 1619.

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Indentured Servants Come to Jamestown

• These were Englishmen who had their passage paid
  to the colonies by an individual for whom they
  would have to work for 7 years.

Would this amount of time be worth coming to
America? Why?
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Who Was the Real Pocahontas?
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Pocahontas Playful Little Girl

• Daughter of Indian Chief
• About 12 years old when English Arrived at
  Jamestown in 1607
• Married John Rolfe
• Went to England
• Died Tuberculosis at Age 22 before leaving
  England
• 2 children

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Baptism of Pocahontas, 1614Portrait Hangs in
Rotunda of US Capitol
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Marriage of John Rolfe and PocahontasApril, 1614
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Virginia House of Burgesses

• Created in 1619 to provide an assembly of elected
  representatives. This was the first
  representative assembly in the American colonies.

Do you think a less democratic form of government
would Have been better at Jamestown?
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Jamestown Expands by 1620
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Bacons Rebellion, 1676

• Former indentured colonists in Virginia protested
  against high taxes and not being able to settle
  on the western frontier
• Nathaniel Bacon and enraged settlers took over
  the House of Burgesses and burned Jamestown.
• Important in American history One of the first
  protest against English authority in the British
  American colonies

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Bacons Rebellion, Virginia 1676Early Protest
Against English Authority
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Virginia Capital Moves to Williamsburg, 1699
House of Burgesses
Bruton Parish Church
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College of William and Mary1693Americas 2nd
Oldest CollegeWilliamsburg, Virginia
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Historic Jamestown, Virginia Today
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