Do now: Watch the video and write a min. of 5 useful facts about
Jamestown (number your facts)
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Today, I will analyze an excerpt from a primary document. Also, I
will understand why the colonization of Jamestown almost failed
and why they were eventually able to thrive as a colony.
Homework finish reading 3.5 and answer Qs 1-17.
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Jamestown
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Define Joint-Stock company
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Early goals of English Settlement (4 total).
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Early problems with colonizing Jamestown.
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Native tribe: Powhatan = Branch of the Algonquin.
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John Smith’s influence??
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The “Starving Time” 60 of 400 survive.
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What saved the settlers?
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Joint-Stock company: Allows several investors to pull their capital
together and mutually share risk. Early corporations
Goals: Find gold, find a passage to Asia and India, demonstrate
power, disseminate western culture and spread Christianity.
Problems: Hot, humid, malaria, brought over wealthy people and
artisans that didn’t know how to farm, fish, …survive
John Smith: “He that will not work, shall not eat…” September
1609 gunpowder horn explodes and he has to return to England
Starving Time: 60/400 survive = 15%
Tobacco saves the colony, becomes the first profitable export from
North America. Thanks John Rolfe
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Cannibalism at Jamestown
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Starving Time