Queen Elizabeth gave Sir

Walter Raleigh permission to settle

Raleigh named England’s first colony Virginia – after the Virgin Queen Elizabeth

First attempt at Roanoke Island in 1585 – FAILED – all return to England

2nd Attempt in 1587

Roanoke

John White governor of 2nd attempt at Roanoke

Brings 100 settlers Including his daughter

who gives birth to 1st English child in New World

Leaves to bring back supplies

Delayed by Spanish Armada for almost 3 years

Returns to…

Lost Colony of Roanoke

NOTHING!Everyone is gone

Only clue is the word “Croatoan” carved into a post

Theories

Survival Moved

entire colony inland

Integrated into a nearby tribe

Extinction

Move colony inland and THEN destroyed

Lost at sea Destroyed by

Spanish

Virginia Dare – granddaughter of John

White 1st English person born in New World

Ghost of Virginia Dare

Virginia Dare Stone

Establishment of Jamestown

1st SUCCESSFUL English Colony Established 1607 Financed by the Virginia

Company of London– not crown Joint Stock Companies –

backed by investors looking to earn profit

Charter granted in 1606 by James I written contract issued by

government giving the holder a right to establish a colony

Jamestown

Financed by Virginia Company 100 colonists Many looking for GOLD

Establishment of Jamestown

Colony site was swampy and full of

mosquitoes Mosquitoes carried malaria Many fall ill to drinking river water Harsh climate

Hot/humid during summer Bitter cold winters

Colonists- looking for gold

Hardships at Jamestown

By January 1608 – only 38 alive John Smith – soldier/adventurer – takes

control “He that shall not work, shall not eat” Built wall around Jamestown Trade with Powhatan tribe Returns to England in 1609

Survival of Jamestown

John Smith

Disney Version More Likely

Powhatan Tribe

Trade corn with Jamestown beginning in 1609

Indigenous tribe of Chesapeake Bay area

English refer to chief and his tribe as Powhatan

Daughter is Pocahontas

Tensions rise with arrival of more colonists = “starving time”

Expanding tobacco plantations take over more land

1622 Powhatans kill 100’s of Jamestown residents

Pocahontas

Disney Version More likely

Pocahontas

“Saves” John Smith from her father

DOES NOT MARRY OR FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM

11 or 12 when she meets John Smith

Later married John Rolfe, a Jamestown colonist and tobacco farmer

Used as example in London of what a “tamed savage” couple could be

Dies at 22

Winter of 1609 Powhatan tribe stops

trading with Jamestown Attack colonists Colonists scared to

leave fort Colonists ate rats,

mice, snakes, and some reports of one another

1610 only 60 survive

Starving Time

Starving Time

One amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered her, and had eaten part of her before it was known, for which he was executed, as he well deserved,” Smith wrote. “Now whether she was better roasted, boiled or carbonado’d (barbecued), I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of.”

Develops high grade tobacco Becomes VERY popular in England Virginia Company comes to view Jamestown

residents as employees - mercantilism Offered 50 acre land grant to settlers House of Burgesses in 1619 – 1st

representative assembly – seeds of democracy

1st African Americans arrive Indentured Servants – need more workers

Sold labor in exchange for passage to colony and then were free after working off debt

John Rolfe Saves Jamestown

Economic system used by European

nations to make money

Mercantilism

Jamestown est 1607