Notes and your Binder
• First English colony in the new world
• Joint stock company
• Colonists unhappy AGAIN
• Remember to update your Table of
Contents.
Warm up activity
• WRITE THE FOLLOWING QUESTION
On a sheet of notebook paper……..
What dangers might you face as a settler
in a new land? List no less than 5
answers
Conflict between settlers
Security needs
Crop failure
Serious illness or injury
Protection from wild animals
Severe weather
Protection from “hostiles”
Failure to cooperate w/others
The first English settlement in
the New World…
Jamestown
First Colony: Roanoke
Raleigh gave money for the
• Sir Walter _______
Roanoke
English first colony founded at “______,”
Virginia but it had a mysterious
in _______,
ending.
• The founder left for England to get
supplies and when he returned, the colony,
all the people
_____________
and any trace of them
GONE
were ________!
• No one ever found out what happened to
the settlement or the people, to this
day…no one knows…
How do they get the money?
• When the Roanoke colony
disappeared, Sir Raleigh lost all his
investment his _______!
money
__________,
• So the English decided that many people
go in together to help fund any
should “___________”
more colonies…this way, if the colony is
successful and makes money, each
person who helped start the colony will
get a ___________________.
“share” of the profit
How do they get the money?
• BUT also, this way if the colony
financial loss
disappears again, the ______________
doesn’t hurt as much, since many people,
not just one, put up money for the
losses are smaller
project…any ______________
joint-stock
• This system is called, a “___________”
company
• Each investor puts money in the
make a profit
company expecting to _____________.
New Joint-Stock Company:
The Virginia Company
1607 the Virginia Company of
• In _____,
contract from
London received a charter (_________
the King
__________)
approving their wish to
begin a new colony in Virginia.
• More than 100 colonists made the first
trip to the new colony, expecting to get
gold in the new world,
rich by finding ____
Spanish did.
just like the ________
Work disease and starvation video
Jamestown: 1607
• From the start, it was a disaster…
swampy and
• The site they settled was _______
full of __________,
which gave the
mosquitoes
malaria
colonists ________.
The drinking
dirty and there was no
water was _____
place fit for _________.
farming
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• By 1608, only ____of
the original
settlers survived!
to the rescue!
John Smith arrived at the
• When ___________
miserable colony, he took control and
shall not
said, “He that will not work _________
________!”
eat
build shelters
• He organized work crews to __________
and traded for food with the local
Powhatan
natives, the ___________
tribe.
• But the natives became nervous about the
attacking the
“white man” and began ________
colony…
• Colonists were too terrified to leave the
colony fort and many survived only by
rats, snakes, and mice.
eating ___________________
800 more settlers had
• Although _____
60
arrived that year, only ____survived
starving times
the “______________.”
John Smith saves Jamestown from failure
Finally, success!
• By 1610, the settlers had discovered that
tobacco grew very well on Virginia
________
land…
• Conflict with the settlers developed
Company treated
because the Virginia
______________
employees when they wanted a
them like ________,
profits
“share” of the tobacco _________!
• The company decided to allow settlers to
purchase small plots of land to farm
_________
themselves.
Great, but who will work the land?
indentured servants
• They got “___________________”
from England to work the land. These
temporarily
poor people
are ____________
who ___________
sold their labor to colonists in exchange
boat ticket to the new world.
for the __________
slaves
Africa
• The first _______
from ________
were also brought to the new world in
1619 (much more on this subject later)
Colonists unhappy AGAIN!
• The colonists soon became annoyed at the
strict rule
governor
____________
of the colony’s ___________,
Virginia Company
who represented ONLY the ______________.
local control the colonists
• To get more ____________,
developed a group of ___________________
elected representatives
to help govern the colony, called the House of
Burgesses
____________…
first representative body
• this was the very _____________________
in the new world and gave colonists the ability
WITHOUT the King
to rule themselves _____________________.
On Page 18 of your spiral, look
back in your notes concerning
the joint-stock company.
In your own words, write the
definition of a joint stock
company.
Then draw an illustration that
explains it.
Pocahontas
Reality…
Disney version…