The first English colony in the New World
Jamestown: 1607
The “other” First Colony: Roanoke
Sir Walter _________________ gave money for the English first colony founded at
“____________,” in ____________, but it had a mysterious ending.
The founder left for England to get supplies and when he returned, the colony,
_____________________ and any trace of them 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 for the colonies?
When the Roanoke colony disappeared, Sir Raleigh lost all his
__________________________, his __________________!
So the English decided that many people should “_________________” to help fund any
more colonies…this way, if the colony is successful and makes money, each person who
helped start the colony will get a ___________________________.
BUT also, this way if the colony disappears again, the ______________ doesn’t hurt as
much, since many people, not just one, put up money for the project…any
_____________________
This system is called, a “_____________________________” company
Each investor puts money in the company expecting to _____________
_________________.
New Joint-Stock Company:
The Virginia Company
In ___________, the Virginia Company of London received a charter
(______________________________) 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 rich by finding ________ in the new world, just like
the ____________ did.
Jamestown: 1607
From the start, it was a disaster… The site they settled was ____________ and full of
_______________, which gave the colonists _________________. The drinking water
was _________ and there was no place fit for _______________. By 1608, only
______________of the original settlers survived!
When ________________ arrived at the miserable colony, he took control and said, “He
that will not work _______________________!”
He organized work crews to _________________ and traded for food with the local
natives, the ___________________ tribe.
But the natives became nervous about the “white man” and began ___________ the
colony… Colonists were too terrified to leave the colony fort and many survived only by
eating ____________________ _______ Although ___________ more settlers had
arrived that year, only ______survived the “_________________________.”
By 1610, the settlers had discovered that _______________ grew very
well on Virginia land… Conflict with the settlers developed because the
___________________ treated them like ____________, when they wanted a “share”
of the tobacco ______________! The company decided to allow settlers to
______________ small plots of land to farm themselves.
Great, but who will work the land?
They got “_____________________” from England to work the land. These are
_______________ who ________________ sold their labor to colonists in exchange
for the ____________ to the new world.
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 ___________________ of the colony’s
____________________, who represented ONLY the
___________________________.
To get more _______________________, the colonists developed a
group of ___________________________ to help govern the colony, called the House
of _______________________…
this was the very _____________________ in the new world and gave colonists the ability to
rule themselves _____________________.