3. FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT
IF YOU MISSED THIS CLASS, YOU NEED TO:
1) DO THE DQ2 FOR THE DAY. WRITE THE DAILY QUOTE AND
ANSWER THE QUESTION FOR THE DAY.
2) YOU ARE TO COPY THE NOTES (I GET MY COPY BACK).
3) ANALYZE POCAHONTAS PICTURES
4) ANALYZE JOHN SMITH LETTER
ON THE BOARD:
1.DQ2
2. FIRST ENGLISH
SETTLEMENT NOTES
3. POCAHONTAS PICTURES
Daily Comment & Card
1607
HEADRIGHT
SYSTEM
-Used by Virginia Company
to attract colonists
-Promised land (50 acres) to
immigrate
-50 acres for each servant
-Made use of indentured
servants popular
JAMESTOWN
“He who
shall not
work, he
shall not
eat.”
-Named for James I
-Settled in 1607 by the
Virginia Company of London
-First permanent English
settlement
-swampy location
-goes through “Starving
Time” when J. Smith leaves
SONGS FOR THE DAY:
COLORS OF THE WIND
-JOHN SMITH
Daily Comment & Card
HEADRIGHT
SYSTEM
“He who shall not
work, he shall not
eat.”
-JOHN SMITH
-Used by Virginia Company
to attract colonists
-Promised land (50 acres) to
immigrate
-50 acres for each servant
-Made use of indentured
servants popular
SONGS FOR THE DAY:
COLORS OF THE WIND
Daily Comment & Card
1607
JAMESTOWN
“It is enough that the
child lives.”
-Pocahontas
-Named for James I
-Settled in 1607 by the
Virginia Company of London
-First permanent English
settlement
-swampy location
-goes through “Starving
Time” when J. Smith leaves
SONGS FOR THE DAY:
VIRGINIA COMPANY
Daily Comment & Card
1619
HOUSE OF
BURGESSES
“…She next
under God,
was still the
instrument
to preserve
this colony
from death,
famine and
utter
confusion.”
-John Smith
-Representative assembly in
Virginia
-Voting first given to all
free men, later to those
who owned 50 acres of
land
-First elected legislature in
America
SONGS FOR THE DAY: colors of the wind
writing about
Pocahontas
and
Jamestown
Daily Comment & Card
1609-1610
1600s
TYPES OF
COLONIES IN
THE NEW WORLD
-In a joint stock colony (or
charter), colonists were basically
members of a corporation
-A royal colony had a governor
selected by the King (who total
control of the colony)
-Proprietary colonies were owned by
individuals (who were directly
responsible to the king). The
proprietor selected a governor.
“STARVING TIME”
-A
time of starvation in Jamestown
following the departure of John Smith
-Colonists depended upon trade with the
local Natives for food
-Conflict with the Natives limited the
colonists ability to trade for food
-Large numbers of colonists died, some
fled back to England
-Led to the introductions of reforms that
helped with survival
SONGS FOR THE DAY:
“[She] was
the first
Christian
of that
[Indian]
nation and
the first
Virginian
who ever
spake
English.”
-JOHN SMITH
(talking about
Pocahontas)
HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
Daily Comment & Card
1609-1610
“STARVING TIME”
-A
time of starvation in Jamestown
following the departure of John Smith
-Colonists depended upon trade with the
local Natives for food
-Conflict with the Natives limited the
colonists ability to trade for food
-Large numbers of colonists died, some
fled back to England
-Led to the introductions of reforms that
helped with survival
SONGS FOR THE DAY:
“[She] was
the first
Christian
of that
[Indian]
nation and
the first
Virginian
who ever
spake
English.”
-JOHN SMITH
(talking about
Pocahontas)
HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
Daily Comment & Card
1600s
TYPES OF
COLONIES IN
THE NEW WORLD
-In a joint stock colony (or
charter), colonists were basically
members of a corporation
-A royal colony had a governor
selected by the King (who had
total control of the colony)
-Proprietary colonies were owned by
individuals (who were directly
responsible to the king). The
proprietor selected a governor.
SONGS FOR THE DAY:
“[She] was
the first
Christian
of that
[Indian]
nation and
the first
Virginian
who ever
spake
English.”
-JOHN SMITH
(talking about
Pocahontas)
HUNGRY EYES
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
-describe early English attempts and
settlement.
-interpret the fate of the Roanoke
colony.
-examine the factors of success in
Jamestown
-Assess the importance of Pocahontas to
the survival of Jamestown
A. EARLY CONTACT
CABOT
-Early English attempts at colonization unsuccessful
-John Cabot (1497) thought he was in China
-Captain John Hawkins & “Sea Dogs” raid Spanish ships
HAWKINS
1/7
B. ROANOKE
 Before Jamestown
 Virginia named in honor of Queen Elizabeth
 LOST COLONY
117
Sir Walter Raleigh
2/7
JAMES I MAKES A GUARANTEE:
SETTLERS RETAIN THEIR RIGHTS AS ENGLISHMEN
WHEN THEY TRAVEL TO AND SETTLE IN THE NEW
WORLD*
*IMPORTANT TO REVOLUTION LATER ON. . .
3/7
C. JAMESTOWN
NAMED AFTER KING
1607
VIRGINIA COMPANY /JOINT STOCK COMPANY
38% SURVIVE FIRST YEAR
STARVING TIME!! (>75%- 500 to 60)
SUCCESS FACTORS:
1) STRICT GOVERNORS
2) INDIVIDUAL LAND
3) TOBACCO (introduced by John Rolfe)
4/7
Area known as the Chesapeake (VA/MD)
75% were indentured servants
Passage paid for 7 years of service
½ did not survive period of service
5/7
RELATIONS WITH NATIVES
POWHATAN, LOCAL CHIEF
POCAHONTAS & JOHN SMITH
(SAVED LIFE?)
MARRIES JOHN ROLFE
6/7
D. GOVERNMENT
FIRST ELECTED LEGISLATURE
HOUSE OF BURGESSES
2 MEN PER SETTLEMENT
JULY 1619
PROPERTY-HOLDING MALES VOTE
7/7
DOCUMENT A:
Source: Dennis B. Blanton, “Jamestown’s Environment,” Center for
Archaelogical Research, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg,
Virginia, 2000
Many people have commented over the last four centuries
on the qualities of Jamestown’s environment…
Because the adjacent river and creeks became brackish as
water levels rose, reliable sources of fresh water would have been
scarce by the seventeenth century…, English colonists dug shallow
wells to supply themselves with sources of drinking water, but
these were vulnerable to drought and salt water intrusion. Also,
historian Carville V. Earle attributed…disease in the early years to
Jamestown’s position at the salt-fresh water transition, where filth
introduced into the river tended to fester rather than flush away.
The island is not situated at a point of great natural food
abundance, especially relative to other locations very close
by…Fish are present in local streams, but only in the spring and
early summer are they there in impressive abundance.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What is Brackish water?
What twice daily event would cause water levels around Jamestown to rise and cause wells and fresh water
streams to become brackish?
According to Carville Earle, what happened to human waste that got dumped into the river?
What inference can you make about the effect of tides on health in Jamestown?
Consider the last paragraph, what time of the year do you think starvation was most likely to happen?
DOCUMENT B:
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2.
3.
4.
Source: Adapted from “the Lost Colony and Jamestown
Droughts,” Science, April 24, 1998
What does it mean when the line falls bellow the O line? What were the dates of the first five years of
settlement in Jamestown?
Look at the years 1580-1640. During which period did Jamestown suffer its longest unbroken period of
drought?
In the winter of 1609-1610, Jamestown experienced what settlers called the “starving time.” Based on this
document, what inference can you make about the cause of the “starving time”?
Could the lack of rain strain English relations with the Powhatans? How?
DOCUMENT C:
Source: Adapted from John Smith, The Generall Historie of
Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, Book III, 1624.
1.
2.
3.
4.
How many settlers arrived in May
1607? 1608? How many had known
occupations?
How many settlers from either group
were female?
What is a “gentleman”?
Of the 110 settlers who arrived in May
1607, nearly 70 were dead by
December. Is there anything in the
ship lists that helps explain why?
DOCUMENT D:
Source: Ivor Noel Hume, The Virginia
Adventure, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
(In 1609) Francis West and thirty-six men (sailed) up the
Chesapeake Bay to try to trade for corn with the Patwomeke
Indians…although still part of Powhatan’s confederacy, the tribe had
seen less of the English than had those closer at hand and with luck
might be more friendly. And so it proved.
Though West was able to load his (small ship) with grain, the
success involved “some harshe and Crewell dealinge by cutting of towe
(two) of the Savages heads and other exteremetyes.” The (ship) and
her lifesaving cargo returned to (James Towne)… No one doubted that
this new supply of grain would help, but it would not be enough to last
the winter. On the other hand, decided the ship’s crew, it was plenty
to get them fatly home to England. So it was that Francis West “by te
perswasion or rather by the inforcement of his company hoysedup
Sayles” and headed out into the Atlantic, leaving the colonists to the
Indians and to God.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Is this a primary source or a secondary source?
Why did Francis West sail up the Chesapeake?
Is there any evidence that the English forced the Indians to trade their grain?
What eventually happened to the shipload of grain?
How could this document be used to help answer the question of why so many settlers died?
DOCUMENT E:
Source: Adapted from J. Frederick Fausz, “An Abundance of Blood
Shed on Both Sides: England’s First Indian War, 1609-1614,” The
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, January 1990.
1.
2.
3.
4.
What is the total number of
colonists to arrive at Jamestown
by the end of August of 1609?
In 1607 how many settlers died
from disease? How many were
killed by Indians? How many in
1608?
What caused the deaths of
settlers in 1609?
What can you infer about
settler—Indian relations from
1607 to 1609? What is the trend
for deaths from disease or native
attack in 1607, 1608, and 1609?
WHY DID COLONISTS DIE IN
EARLY JAMESTOWN?
C
ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES
SETTLER SKILLS
(TYPE OF
SETTLERS)
RELATIONS WITH
THE NATIVES
1. DO NOT START WITH “IN THIS ESSAY” OR
“THIS ESSAY WILL.”
2. DO NOT USE CONTRACTIONS. WRITE IT OUT!
(EX: U.S. OR DON’T OR WON’T)
3. DO NOT USE SYMBOLS OR TEXT SPEAK
(EX: U OR &)
4. DO NOT MAKE IT PERSONAL
(EX: I FEEL THAT…WE AS COUNTRY…YOU
MIGHT BELIEVE)
5. DO NOT START YOUR BODY PARAGRAPHS WITH
“IN DOCUMENT A…”
6. DO NOT USE PRESENT TENSE. IT IS
HISTORY; IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST.
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THESIS STATEMENT
What caused the colonists to die in
early Jamestown?
EXPLANATION SENTENCE
Who settled Jamestown and when?
ISTING SENTENCE
Set up the major subjects of your 23 paragraphs!