In your notebook, respond to this
cartoon in 5 sentences.
EQ: What factors influenced the start and
development of the early colonies?
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With exploration booming, the Spanish &
French are all over the place claiming lands
(Territorial dibs) and starting permanent
colonies
The English arrive late on the scene in the
1570s/80s
In fact, the Spanish and French both claimed
the lands known as NC today long before the
English!
Italian explorer,
commissioned by France
 Discovers the lands now
known as North Carolina in
1524
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 First
European since around
1000 AD to explore the Atlantic
coast of North America around
the Carolinas
Chapter 4
Hernando de Soto
 April 1540 led an expedition across the Savannah River
 Moved towards present day North Carolina
 Headed west & died in Mississippi River Area
• 1st European to see the interior of South Carolina
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English aristocrat and explorer
 Funded his own voyages
 Supported by Queen Elizabeth
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1584 - Landed at Roanoke Island
 Made connections with local
Native Americans
 Decided to bring settlers back
1585 – 108 soldiers come to
Roanoke to establish first
colony
 1586 – Colonists and Native
Americans at “war,” and
colony is abandoned
 1587 – Second settlement
attempted
117 colonists come to
Roanoke
Governor John White
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• 1587 – John White returns to
England to get supplies
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1590 – White
returns to
Roanoke, but
finds the
colony has
disappeared
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After the Roanoke Colony failure, the English
established their permanent colony at
Jamestown in VA
Colony became wealthy due to the sale of
tobacco
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The “Jamestown”
Colony
1606
Virginia- named
after the “Virgin
Queen”
Began by Virginia
Company (granted
a charter by King)
1st Permanent
English Colony
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Document granted from English king, granting
sovereignty
Questions:
 What is sovereignty?
 What powers are gained through a charter?
 Why were charters necessary?
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Virginia Company: a Joint Stock Company different stakes can be bought and owned
by shareholders
By 1618, colonials are granted a House of
Burgesses – 1st Representative Democracy in
New World
1. 1606
2. 1607
King James I
issues a
charter to the
Virginia
Company for
land on the
mid-Atlantic
Coast
• May 13: 104 male settlers arrive at
Jamestown, the first permanent
England settlement in the New
World
• May 26: Indian attacks
• December 10: Capt. John Smith is
captured
• December 29: John Smith is saved by
Pocahontas before Powhatan
3.1608
Settlers at
Jamestown
die in great
numbers
(38 of 104
remain)
4. 1609
• 500 more
settlers come
to Virginia
• Relations with
Native
Americans
grow tense
5. 1610
SeptemberMay: The
“Starving Time”
reduces
population to
60 (from 500600)
6.1612
John Rolfe
tries a crop of
tobacco to
help save the
Jamestown
settlement
7. 1614
John Rolfe
marries
Pocahontas
8. 1618-1623
The “Great
Migration”
increases
Jamestown’s
population
from 400 to
4,500
9. 1619
VA House of
Burgesses
meets for the
first time
Outgrowth in VA leads to
people migrating south to
new lands… helps push for a
new land grant for what
becomes known as the
Carolina Colony
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Colonies of Maryland,
Connecticut, Rhode Island,
and Massachusetts created
under his rule
1628 -- Granted charters to
colonize lands south of
Virginia, named for himself
– Carolana
The Carolana charter,
known as the “Heath
Patent” granted to Sir
Robert Heath
Heath’s plans to settle fail,
contract eventually is
voided during English
Civil War
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Due to lack of population,
Charles II sold Heath Patent
to the “8 Lord Proprietors,” 8
wealthy lords in England
Proprietor = owner
Renamed the colony
Carolina, in honor of Charles
II
Promoted populating the
colony through profit
incentive
NOW, the Carolina Colony
will be permanently settled!
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What factors
influenced the
start and
development of
the early
colonies?
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What kinds of immigrants
came over to the New
World? Were they
voluntary or forced?