THE VIRGINIA COLONY

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THE VIRGINIA COLONY

• Learn how the Virginia Colony was settled
• Describe the relations between the settlers and
  American Indians

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THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND

• Queen Elizabeth I
• Wanted a colony in North America
• Wealth
• Raw materials resource that can be used to make
  a product

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TO THE NEW WORLD

• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Told to set a colony in NA 1584
• Sent 100 colonists to Roanoke Island
• Ran low on food
• left

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THE LOST COLONY

• John White
• 1587 arrived at Roanoke w/more settlers
• Virginia Dare 1st English baby in NA
• Ran low on food/White went back to England
• War between Spain England
• Delayed White three years
• EVERYTHING GONE only clue C R O
• Maybe Croatoan Island Nobody knows

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THE VIRGINIA COMPANY

• Set up by a group of English merchants
• Each gave money to set up company
• Each received stock
• Share of ownership
• If company makes money, merchant makes money

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JAMESTOWN

• 1607
• Virginia Company sent 3 ships
• Arrive at Chesapeake Bay
• 105 colonists, all men
• Sailed up a river
• Named it James River (King James I)
• Settle near shore
• Call it Jamestown

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PROBLEMS FOR JAMESTOWN

• Land was low and swampy
• Disease carrying mosquitoes
• Not good for growing crops
• Not enough farmers
• Digging for gold
• Not planting or gathering food
• Too many gentlemen
• gentlemen did not work
• First winter ½ colonists died!

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CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH

• Soldier, explorer, writer
• Became leader of Jamestown
• anyone who doesnt work, doesnt eat
• Colonists
• Planting gardens
• Building shelters
• Putting up palisades

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POWHATAN CONFEDERACY

• Eastern Woodlands
• More than 30 tribes
• Most belonged to confederacy
• United under one chief
• Colonists called all, including chief, Powhatan

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CONFLICTS WITH TRIBES

• Colonists stole Powhatan crops
• Led to fighting
• Both sides would capture people

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THE LEGEND

• John Smith is captured by Powhatan
• Chief orders him to be killed
• John Smith is saved by chiefs daughter
• Pocahontas
• True?
• Short-lived peace
• Both groups traded during this time

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POCAHONTAS

• Daughter of Chief Powhatan
• 12 years old in 1607
• Her friendship with the colonists helped bring a
  peace
• Kidnapped by English settler in 1613
• Ransom
• Fell in love and married John Rolfe
• Died on the way back from England/22

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TOBACCO

• John Rolfe
• Experimented with growing tobacco
• Found a popular one by 1613
• Cash crop
• A crops that people grow to sell
• Virginia Company made money
• Sold tobacco all over Europe

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INDENTURED SERVANT

• Plantations
• LARGE farm, required many workers
• Virginia Company
• Paid for passage to Virginia
• Exchange
• Passage for work without pay for a certain amount
  of time Indentured servant

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AFRICAN SLAVES

• 1619
• 1st African arrive
• Slaves or indentured servants?
• Virginias economy
• Became dependent upon enslaved workers
• More Africans brought to the colony as slaves

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EARLY GOVERNMENT

• 1619 - gt 1,000 colonists/needed law
• Wanted same rights as people living in England
• Legislature law making branch of govt.
• House of Burgesses
• Burgess representative
• Property owners could vote or be members
• No women, indentured servants or slaves
• Passed law must go to Church on Sunday
• Established church supported by government

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POWHATAN WARS

• Colonists spread on Powhatan land
• 1622 Powhatan attack/kill gt340 colonists
• Colonists fought back
• Push Powhatan back/take over lands
• Virginia Company had war debt
• King James takes over Virginia
• Now a royal colony (King owns it)
• Chose a governor who shared power with House of
  Burgesses

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SUMMARY

• Starting in the 1590s, England set up colonies
  in North America. The Virginia Colony developed
  slowly. As the colony grew, slavery was
  introduced and the Powhatan Wars were fought.
• Create a timeline of the Virginia Colony
• Pages 160 166
• 1584 - 1622