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Jamestown Content Frame
Mercantilism: ________________________________________________________________
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Term
1st Roanoke
2nd Roanoke The Lost
Colony
Spanish Armada
Jamestown
John Smith
Date
1. Define it!!
2. Why is it important?
Term
Date
1. Define it!!
2. Why is it important?
Tobacco
Free
Enterprise/Capitalism
Indentured Servants: ____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
Slaves
House of Burgesses
Concept Definition Map
Key Event
Reason it was started
Leader who kept colony
from starving
Workers brought to work
plantations
1607
1st Representative Government
Item that helped colony
survive
There is a great
race of Europeans
heading west
European Countries began
setting up colonies in the
New World.
Spain was able to claim
the most land first. Land
= Money for the Mother
Country using
“Mercantilism”
Mercantilism=
The Mother
Country takes
the resources
of the Colony
to make
products,
then sells the
products back
to the Colony
Spain had colonies in the Americas which
provided them with gold, silver, sugar cane
from plantations, etc…
Raw Materials=Gold, sugar and the
rest=$$$$$$$=POWER=Number 1 in the
World!
England wanted to Be #1!
It is expensive to run a
whole country so Queen
Elizabeth ordered English
ships to capture Spanish
ships near America and
steal their cargo of gold,
silver, and other products.
England needed the $$$
Queen Elizabeth I
Ruler of England
1558-1603
England also attacked Spanish settlements
and set up their own settlements in North
and South America.
Up and down the coast of the Americas,
European countries were attacking each
others settlements.
Colonization is where the REAL
money is made
England realized that setting up colonies would
earn them more money in the long run. They
began directing their resources toward
establishing permanent colonies.
The English government refused to fund the
colonies because it was too expensive so
private investors began investing in colonies.
Sir Walter Raleigh was one man who received
permission from Elizabeth to start the first
English colony at Roanoke Island.
1585
1. This was England’s 1st
attempt to start a colony.
The 1st colony was destroyed
when the Natives realized that
the English wanted their land
and they stopped replenishing
the English food supply.
2. Colony failed and surviving
members of the colony
returned to England in 1586.
Sir Walter Raleigh starts
the first colony at
Roanoke Island.
1587
1. Colony started by John
White & his family. His
granddaughter was the first
English child (Virginia Dare)
born in North America. Ran
out of supplies so White
sailed and left family at
Roanoke (1588). While he was
in England Spain attacked
England with the Spanish
Armada and John White got
stuck in England.
2. White returned in 1590 but
the colony had
disappeared. No one knows
what happened to them.
Spain attacked England
with 130 warships. Sea
Dogs (pirates who worked
for England) and a storm
defeated the Armada, the
navy sailed back to Spain
with less than half of their
ships.
2. Spain was defeated. Led
to:
a) England able to
continue colonizing.
b) Other countries began
to challenge Spain.
1.
King James I issued a charter in
1606 to set up a colony that he
hoped would make money for
England. This is called an
economic reason for setting up
a colony.
1. Jamestown was the first
permanent English
Colony.
They named the colony
Jamestown in honor of King
James I.
2. Was set up for Economic
Reasons-to make money
The colonists immediately ran
into trouble.
1607
First day in
Jamestown
Jamestown, VA
Jamestown – “Never Give Up, Never
Surrender!”
On May 14, 1607, colonists from England selected a piece of
land on a large peninsula for a new settlement. The Peninsula
was surrounded on 3 sides by rivers. The settlement was set
up near deep water, making it easy to get big ships close to
the settlement. However, the island was swampy, isolated,
offered limited space and was plagued by mosquitoes (that
gave settlers malaria) and brackish river water unsuitable
for drinking. In addition the settlers arrived too late in the
year to get crops planted. Many in the group were not used
to hard, physical work. Their servants didn’t know how to
farm and didn’t want to work hard. In a few months, most
were dead; some of the survivors were deserting to the
Indians whose land they had invaded.
Jamestown was started for economic purposes…to
make $$$$$$$$ for the company, the settlers and the
king but it failed at first.
1608
Pocahontas
saving John
Smith
At first JT was settled by young men
who wanted to find gold. They refused
to plant crops or hunt for food. Within
the first year over 75% died of
starvation and disease. JT was going to
fail like Roanoke. By 1608 only 38
colonist were still alive in Jamestown.
1.John Smith took over the colony.
Convinced colonists to work and
was able to trade with the Powhatan
tribe for corn. He announced that,
“He that will not work shall not
eat.”
2.His leadership saved the colony.
Problems at Jamestown:
In the beginning everyone was supposed to farm together,
then put what they had into a common storehouse. From
there, each person would be given what it was decided he
needed. In reality, the ones that worked ended up providing
for the ones that didn’t. Since only a few were putting food
in the common-storehouse, the supply quickly ran out.
Jamestown Fort
1609–1610
In 1609 Smith was injured
and he returned to England.
Hundreds of new colonists
arrived. They took Native
American land, angering the
local tribe.
By 1610 Powhatan Indians
stopped trading with the
colonists. Indian attacks
escalated.
Only 61 of the 500 colonists
survived this period
Only 60 colonists
survived.
Colonist ate dogs, rats, mice….And
each other. New evidence shows
colonists turned to cannibalism to
survive. “Jane” was found in early
2000’s. Her skull shows scrape
marks from sharp instruments
used to peel away her flesh
Jane Doe found at Jamestown.
Shows evidence of cannibalism
1612
1. John Rolfe brought a
high quality tobacco
plant that became the
cash crop for JT. Cash
Crop=crops you grow to
sell.
2.Tobacco could be sold for
a lot of money in England.
Tobacco saved
Jamestown! It was
profitable and more
people moved to JT to live.
Jamestown’s success led to other colonies being
formed along the Chesapeake Bay
Free Enterprise/Capitalism-After 1610
How Jamestown Survived:
The Virginia Company (investors) & leaders of JT decided to
give each man a parcel of land and allow them to keep some of
the profit from the sale of their tobacco. When people knew
they were responsible for their own survival and that they
could make a profit by selling their excess, most got to work.
Jamestown was the start of the FREE ENTERPRISE system
in North America
1. Under capitalism, you are allowed to participate
in the profits
2. Free Enterprise (Capitalism) increased the
colonist’s productivity
Poor people
who agreed to
come work
for someone
in America
for 7 years.
Their travel
expenses
were paid by
the “owner”
 Colonist (mostly white) who could not pay
their way to America, agreed to work for an
owner for a certain number of years if the
owner would pay their way to the New
World.
 After a number of years of servitude the
colonist could make their own way at
Jamestown or another colony.
 Interesting Fact:
 The first slave owner in the colonies was an
African American man who had started out
an indentured servant. He earned his
freedom, paid to bring over his own servants
and went to court to have them made into
his slaves. Court gave him a black man to be
his slave for life.
Slaves
1619
A person who is the property of another
person.
2. Provided an inexpensive labor force.
They were used to harvest tobacco for English
plantation owners.
This was the beginning of slavery in America.
1.
1. King of England
2. Parliament (Like our
Congress)
Problems:
 2000 miles away from
America
 Had to appoint a
governor for local
control
3. Virginia Company of
London-Investors. Too
far away and only
interested in making
money for investors
In order to make a society
work, you must have
someone setting up rules
so…
Colonist set up their own
government = Local
Control. Representatives
were elected by the people
of the colony. Assembly
could meet once a year.
The House of Burgesses
was the first
representative assembly
in the American colonies.
1619
Local men were elected to make
laws for the colony. They still had
to get approval from the governor
(who was appointed by the King)
Concept Definition Map
Key Event
Reason it was started
(One of 4)
Leader who kept colony
from starving by
making everyone work
1607
Workers brought to
work plantations to be a
cheap source of labor
1st Representative
Government
Item that helped colony
survive
Jamestown Content Frame
Mercantilism: The Mother Country takes the resources of the Colony to make
products, then sells the products back to the Colony
1. Define it!!
Term
Date
1st Roanoke
1585
England’s 1st attempt to
start a colony
Colony failed.
2nd Roanoke The Lost
Colony
1587
Colony started by John
White & his family
Colony disappeared
Spanish Armada
1588
Spain attacked England
with 130 warships
Spain defeated. England
is able to colonize in
America
Jamestown
1607
John Smith
1608
First permanent English
colony
Convinced colonists to
work and was able to trade
for corn. “He that will not
work shall not eat.”
2. Why is it important?
Was set up for Economic
Reasons-to make money
Saved the colony.
Term
Tobacco
Free
Enterprise/Capitalism
Date
1612
1610
1. Define it!!
John Rolfe brought
tobacco plant that became
the cash crop for JT. Cash
Crop=crops you grow to
sell.
You are allowed to
participate in the profits
2. Why is it important?
Tobacco saved Jamestown
Increased the colonist’s
productivity
Indentured Servants: Poor people who agreed to come work for someone in
America for 7 years.
Slaves
House of Burgesses
1619
1619
A person who is the
property of another
person.
Local Control
Provided an inexpensive
labor force
The first representative
assembly in the American
colonies.
Jamestown’s success led to other colonies being
formed along the Chesapeake Bay
The House of Burgesses was a “Bicameral”
legislature=2 Houses
Must add this to future notes
Concept Definition Map
Leader who
keptSmith
colony
John
from
starving
Workers
brought to
Slaves
work
plantations
Key
Jamestown
Event
1607
1st
House of
Representative
Burgesses
Government
Reason it
Economic
was started
Reasons
Item that
helped
Tobacco
colony
survive