Chapter 2 Day 1 Quote: “…he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers” - Captain John Smith Objective: Describe the reasons for the founding of Jamestown and assess its success. States Standards: Strand 1 Concept 3 PO 1, 2, 3
England’s Imperial Stirrings/ Elizabeth Energizes England Protestant Reformation= increased rivalry Sir Francis Drake Roanoke, Lost Colony 1588, Spanish Armada
England on the Eve of Empire England population growth (mid-1500’s) enclosure law Primogeniture Joint-Stock Company
England Plants the Jamestown Seedling Virginia Company, Jamestown (1607) John Smith, Powhatan, Pocahontas Starving Time
Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake First Anglo-Powhatan War (1614) Tobacco Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1644-1646) 3 D’s
The Indians’ New World Horses Disease Time for space
Virginia: Child of Tobacco Brown Gold Plantation economy House of Burgesses (1619) Women