Pre-AP Monday Start your agenda! Turn to page 23 of your notebook and get out your Jamestown notes!

Monday Start your agenda! Turn to page 22 of your notebook and get out your Jamestown notes!

First Successful English Colony in the New World Jamestown Colony First Successful English Colony in the New World

Essential Question What made Jamestown the first successful English colony, and what effects did it have on the New World?

Monday 9/18 Class Notes Jamestown Continued

Joint-Stock Companies Companies invest their money in an idea, expecting greater profits in return

Virginia Company Had the right to begin new colonies in North America Extended English rights to its colonists

John Rolfe Arrived in Jamestown in 1610 with Spanish strands of tobacco Married Pocahontas and advocated for peace with the Powhatans Expanded Jamestown’s tobacco economy, leading to a time of prosperity and increased colonization of the James River

John Rolfe

Jamestown: The Growth of Government In 1619, the governor of Virginia called a meeting of the Virginia Assembly. By the 1640s, the burgesses became a separate legislative body, called the Virginia House of Burgesses.

Representative Government A system in which people elect representatives in order to make laws and lead the government

Representative Government How could we create a representative government in this class?

Representative Government Examples: Virginia House of Burgesses Mayflower Compact Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Virginia House of Burgesses Gave settlers the opportunity to control their own government. It became the General Assembly of Virginia, which continues to this day.

Reading House of Burgesses

Discuss responses to EQ.

Homework due tomorrow: Mayflower Compact

Credits Virginia Studies Curriculum Framework, Commonwealth of Virginia, Board of Education, 2001 Virginia Studies Posters (http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/vastudiesposter.html) Google Image Search (www.google.com/images)