TOTD: Now that you know about the Lost Colony,
what do you think is the most logical theory
regarding the disappearance of the colonists in
Roanoke, NC? Explain your reasoning.
 Agenda:
TOTD
Notes pg 2
Jamestown/Plymouth Venn Diagram
Columbian Exchange Booklet (Due Fri)
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English Settlements
Virginia Company: Group of English
merchants who secured a charter
from king to develop land in new
world
Jamestown, 1607
•1st permanent SUCCESSFUL
settlement/Joint-stock colony
John Smith: leader of Jamestown
•Virginia Company: Opportunity to make
$ in selling of land to settlers
Hard times: see next slides
Powhatan: Indian Tribe
helped/attacked colonists
“Starving Time” Powhatan killed
colonists livestock/destroyed their
cropsLed to famine
600 to 60 survive
Now what?
Needed laws/government over
there so they set up the 1st
representative democracy in
the Americas
Basic daily rations for each traveler on the ship to
Jamestown included:
•dried hardtack (biscuits that were baked until all moisture
was removed)
•salted, dried or pickled meats and fish
•Cheese
•oatmeal or barley
•a gallon of beer or wine.
In bad weather, no cooking was allowed on board the ships,
so the settlers soaked the biscuits in water to make them
edible.
Cheese and cold pickled meats completed these meals
Lack of fresh water also contributed to the many dead
This charter included
all lands in North
Carolina not
occupied by Spanish
or French
These people
founded the first
English settlement.
Named it
JAMESTOWN!
►Jamestown-
1st
successful English
settlement, 1607 (20
years after lost colony)
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Hard times
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b/c no real workers
Don’t know the
land/how to farm
Disease…again
No food
COOL FACTS/FYI:
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Powhatan-
Indian tribe
English received their
help
But as #s grew, so did
tensions and
Powhatan
ATTACKED!
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Despite these rocky
beginnings, Powhatan did
exhibit trust of the
newcomers when he
allowed his sons and at
least one daughter
(Pocahontas) to travel to
and from the settlement.
The English needed the
Indians
--corn, venison, and fish
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Indians guaranteed their
survival by supplying
them.
Jamestown
More colonists do come, now what?
Remember, they are all loyal to England
and the king.
…Only here for adventure, money,
advancement
Establish some sort of government to be in
place locally!
1st democratic gov’t- House of Burgesses!
-more colonists
-1st democratic gov’t
***House of Burgesses: Needed
laws/government over there so they
set up the 1st representative
democracy in the Americas
-tobacco as a cash crop
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
-headright system
50 acres to each new colonist
-indentured servants
-first slaves imported
2 representatives from each
town/community to represent the
people
 12 men
 Helped make laws/bring order to this
area
 Remember, “leader” is sitting on a throne
in England.
*** marked the beginning of colonial selfgovernment!***
1st REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY!!!
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Tobacco as a ca$h cropGrown for trade and profit
John Rolfe-crossbred with a
Brazilian form. Everyone
loved it.
Married Pocahantas
Attraction, but also allowed
for peace treaty between
the Powhatans and colonists.
•Pocahontas-married around 17
•Married Rolfe in a Christian
ceremony (changed her name to
Rebecca) 1614
•d.-1617
Clash with Indians
-desire for land led to conflicts
-European feelings of superiority
-no intermarriage with Indians
groups
-fought wars with Powhatan
Indians
-Virginia becomes royal colony so
that King’s Army can protect
settlers
First Rebellion
-Indian dispute on the frontier
-Colonists ask for protection from
Virginia Gov’t, but were
denied..man up
Bacon was so angry he marched on
Jamestown
-Nathaniel Bacon led the frontier
colonists in a rebellion against
the Virginia gov’t and was
defeated**called Bacon’s Rebellion
-showed signs of discontent with
leadership Problem: fighting Indians
and now fighting each other.
Religious Reasons
• -Henry VIII begins the Anglican
Church (Protestant) church in
1534
• He was Catholic, officially
changes English religion
forever!
•When you
think Puritans,
think old strict
church lady…
-Reformers want to rid the church
of all Roman Catholic traditions
-Puritans
wanted to purify the Church of
England
Literal interpretation of the
bible
individual and congregational
control of religion
**left b/c of this. Considered
RELIGIOUS DISSENTERS!
NO
DRINKING
OR
SWEARING!
•Think Pilgrims, think
Pilgrims
-Pilgrims also called Separatists
because they wanted to practice
their own religion
-Plymouth Mass. 1620
-Mayflower Compact
set up direct democracy for the
colony *leads to tradition of
town meetings. EVERYONE is
DIRECTLY involved.
-colony struggled but received
Indian help to grow crops
Thanksgiving  1621
Squanto, cool Indian friend
-William Bradford
Pilgrim leader/Governor
“Of Plymouth Plantation”
Massachusetts Bay Company
-Puritans
-John Winthrop
-City on a Hill
be an example to the world…
everyone is watching, oh and
GOD.
-connection between church and
state RELIGION and
GOVERNMENT NEED TO BE
TOGETHER!
-strict adherence to Puritan rules
“People should be
able to
believe/worship
in their own way.
There is NO room
for RELIGION in
GOVERNMENT!”
Puritan Dissent
-Roger Williams
Separation of Church and State
exiled from the colony
fled and founded Providence R.I.
-Anne Hutchinson
belief in individual worship
banished in famous trial
fled to R.I.
Separation of church and state
and individual worship!
Indian Resistance
-some cooperation but short lived
-disease, land, and religion caused
disputes
-Pequot War, 1637
massacre of Indians: 500+
men/women/children
Puritans of Massachusetts Bay spread
further into Connecticut, (CT) they
came into increasing conflict with
the Pequots, a war-like tribe
centered on the Thames River in SE
CT
-King Philip’s War: King Philip's War of
1675-1676 (also known as Metacom's
Rebellion) marked the last major
effort by the Indians of southern
New England to drive out the English
settlers. lots of deaths on both sides
but colonists win and Indian
resistance fades
Read the Jamestown/Plymouth Compare and
Contrast Article
 Create a Venn Diagram of these two early
colonies
 10 contrasting facts for each
 4 similarities
 3 illustrations
for each side
Jamestown
Plymouth
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