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Jamestown: Myths and Realities Mr. Bach Accelerated United States History

English Colonization The Charter of the Virginia Company:The Charter of the Virginia Company: –Guaranteed to colonists the same rights as Englishmen as if they had stayed in England. –This provision was incorporated into future colonists’ documents. –Colonists felt that, even in the Americas, they had the rights of Englishmen!

Why did Jamestown nearly fail?

Goal of a Joint-Stock Company Investors would like to see a quick profit What would be the best way to realize a quick profit?

Chesapeake Bay

Jamestown Fort & Settlement Map

Jamestown Fort & Settlement (Computer Generated)

Who Were the First Colonists? Not

Starving Time Only 60 of 400 settlers survive winter of

So, how was Jamestown saved?

Captain John Smith Those who shall not work, shall not eat

Forging a “peace” with the Powhatan Confederacy

Pocahontas “Saves” John Smith

John Rolfe and the “Savior” The “Stinking Weed” makes Jamestown profitable. “Virginia’s gold and silver” –Rolfe, 1622

Jamestown Settlement Pattern

Powhatan Uprising of 1622

Jamestown: The Beginning of an American Mythology

Pocahontas