By John, Ibby, Isaiah, Aniruddha Jamestown: Block 2 By John, Ibby, Isaiah, Aniruddha

Key Vocabulary Virginia Company John Rolfe John Smith Powhatan Empire House of Burgesses democratic assembly Starving Time tobacco indentured servitude headright system business venture Anglican Church Free Practice Rule Pocahontas Anglo-Powhatan Wars Thomas West (Lord De La Warr)

History Why? Who? Early Problems - Search for gold/silver Route to the Orient Surplus population in England Establish English colonial empire Who? John Smith (1580-1631) investor/leader King James I (1566-1625) King of England John Rolfe (1585-1622) planter/early settler/diplomat Virginia Company joint-stock company that funded the voyage Early Problems - Conflict with the Powhatan empire Difficulties cultivating food Sickness spread rapidly between the colonists Dependence on trade with the Powhatan to acquire foodstuffs Over-focused on gold Map of the local of JT on the VA coast

Government Who could participate? White landlords (men) above 21 years of age - burgesses White men could vote Significance? First representative assembly in the colonies First democratic assembly in the colonies Type of Charter? Self-governing charter colony (Virginia Company) Revoked by King James 1 Royal colony What? House of Burgesses Structure? 22 burgesses - elected officials An assembly speaker Numerous committees on different topics

Economy Who? John Rolfe Planter and early colonist What? Experimented with Spanish tobacco Largest export from Jamestown Why? Pleasant and milder taste Popular demand in England Labor supply? Indentured Servants Why? Cheap labor for tobacco farming Replaced by what? Slavery Landowners threatened by servants

Population/Demography 1607 -105 After Starving Time - 38 Sent 1607-1624 - 6,000 Population 1649 - 1200 Africans 1619 - 20 Africans 1649 - 300 Women: 1607 - no women 1608 - 2 women 1621 - 57 widows

Culture Headright System 1618, Virginia Company 50 Acres Tobacco Plantations Indentured Servitude Aristocracy Women and Children 1619 Marry Young/Children Cook, Clean, and Raise Followed Parents’ Footsteps Grammar School Daily Life in Jamestown Clash of Culture Native Americans and Africans Differences and Similarities Men English Gentlemen Business Ventures Individualistic Hierarchy Gentlemen Working Class Indentured Servants/Slaves

Religion Anglican Free practice Not important role Economic purposes

Native American Relations Powhatan Empire Peace and Pocahontas (1613-1614) Samuel Argall and Japazeus Kidnapped Pocahontas Negotiation Breakdown Marriage (John Rolfe) Mixed Beginnings (1607-09) Trade and Gifts Violence Dependence Marriage of Pocahontas and Rolfe Powhatan Wars (1622-44) Opechancanough Surprise Attack Death Toll: 400 Warfare 14 years Final Uprising Starving Time (1609-1610) Loss of Barter Attacks on Wanderers Near Abandonment Thomas West Bronze Bust of Powhatan at the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in Virginia. Indian Uprising (1622)

People and Events Who?: John Smith- English explorer and early leader of Jamestown John Rolfe -English planter and colonist; saved Jamestown with tobacco Pocahontas- Daughter of Chief Powhatan; “saved” Smith Events? Starving time- Winter of 1609-1610; lack of food supplies and Indian hostility Anglo-Powhatan Wars- Series of attacks and conflict between the settlers and Indians