JAMESTOWN

RELIGIOUS REASONS TO EMIGRATE

Puritans – people who wanted to purify the Catholic Church Supreme authority of

the Bible Ministers to be

elected

King James I saw this as a challenge to the Church and made many Puritans ready to leave England.

ECONOMIC REASONS TO EMIGRATE

England was producing more wool than needed and prices fell.

Lots of unemployment and no job opportunities

JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES pool money for

many investors for large projects

(ie – settle ‘new world’)

Several unsuccessful attempts to settle

Walter Raleigh settled Roanoke Harsh winter Disappeared – no

bodies “CRO” carved on a

post

King James sent the Virginia Company to colonize the Americas (1606/7)

Landed in Virginia and named it Jamestown

JAMESTOWN WAS A PROBLEM!

Too close to the sea – made it swampy

Mosquitoes spread malaria

No one knew how to grow crops or raise livestock

53/200 were alive after one year

CULTURES COMBINE

John Smith – Became leader of Jamestown

Chief Powhatan – leader of the local Native America tribe

WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENS?

Powhatan agreed to trade with John Smith, the only thing that kept Jamestown alive in the beginning.

THE STARVING TIME

There was not enough food for all settlers, but Smith and de la War had headed back to England.

Settlers began stealing food from the Native Americans and were attacked.

Settlers began eating dogs, rats, snakes, toadstools, and horsehides.

Some ate the corpses of buried settlers.

60 settlers remained, but they started creating smaller towns in Virginia, spreading away from Jamestown.

England was not happy with how things were going and sent a replacement – Lord de la War, who brought 400 new settlers

Lord de la War took more settlers to Jamestown and put them under harsh laws.

BROWN GOLD

To bring money in and save the colony, the settlers began growing and selling TOBACCO.

John Rolfe was responsible for the success.

Increased Population

Headright System Indentured

Servitude

HOUSE OF BURGESSES

First representative gov’t

Legislation Taxation In Parliament???

1624 Virginia became a royal colony – ran

by a king-appointed governor

RELATIONS DETERIORATE

Colonial-Indian Relations

King Phillip’s War (1675-1678) Sassamon New England ‘the spark’

Powhatan’s Revolt

Economic Tension in Colonies

Headright -> Indentured

Taxes Bacon’s Rebellion

(1676) Western colonists vs.

Doeg Tribe Bacon vs. Berkley