list reasons for european exploration and colonization

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notebook.Maps, mercantilism outline, Columbian Exchange outline, Slave Trade notes,

Jamestown Essay and Document A or E

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Political Economical Social Religious

List reasons for European Exploration and Colonization

JamestownThe First Successful English

Colony

Jamestown Begins• After Raleigh’s failure with Roanoke,

individual people stopped funding colonies

• Joint stock companies started– a business in which investors combine their

money in order to make a profit• London Company (founded Jamestown)• Plymouth Company (Plymouth…duh…)

• Once a joint stock company got a charter, they could establish a colony– a written contract from a government that

gave the companies permission to create a colony

Jamestown- 1607• First permanent English

settlement with more than 100 colonists

• Began with problem– Bad location- swampy– Disease- malaria- carrying

mosquitoes– Spent more time mining for

gold than building a settlement or planting crops

• Climate– Summer- hot and humid– Winter- bitter cold

Jamestown- 1608• Only 38 of the original 100

were still alive• John Smith takes over in

January– Made physical improvements

• built a protective wall around the colony

– Got colonists working• “He that will not work shall not eat.”

– Improved relations with Powhatan Indians

• Got them to trade corn with the settlers

– Injured in an explosion and had to leave in 1609

– That same year about 500 more settlers arrived

• Growing tensions with Indians– Indians stopped trading

food– Increased attacks on the

settlers• Colonists afraid to leave fort

• Starving Time– Colonists ate rats, mice,

snakes– Only 60 survived in 1610– The next spring they were

saved again• Supply ships brought food,

more settlers, and soldiers• a new governor who imposed

more discipline

Jamestown- 1609-1610

• John Rolfe arrives with a crop that will make Jamestown rich– a high grade version

of tobacco– tobacco became a

cash crop• a crop grown in order to

be sold for money instead of personal use (food, clothes, shelter, etc.)

• Became widespread and popular

Jamestown- 1611-1612

Jamestown Booms• Colony became more of a business than a colony

– Colonists seen as employees– Colonists wanted their share of the profit

• Virginia Company eventually let settlers own land– This caused them to work even harder on harvesting tobacco

• First African American slaves came• Population more than tripled in 2 years• More workers were needed but not many people could

afford the passage• Indentured servitude was also a way to increase the

amount of workers – a person who sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to

America– after they paid the money back they were free to own their own

land

First Representative Government

• Representative Government- a government where voters elect people to make the laws

• Colonists started to get annoyed at how much control the governor had

• They were placed under VERY strict laws– They were still being treated like employees

• The Virginia Company decided that representatives called burgesses would meet once a year to give the colonists more representation

• House of Burgesses- first representative government in the American colonies