Jump Start 1.Pass up your slavery concept poem. Make sure your name is on it. 2.For the Jamestown background Essay, complete the following steps: A.Put your NAME on it B.Circle the title C.Number the paragraphs (#1, #2, etc.) D.Put a box around the bolded words E.Highlight the first sentence of each paragraph

Pre-AP Instructions 1.Rate how well you know the vocabulary words. 2.Survey title, pictures, etc., and predict 2 things you will learn. 3.Write a question based on the title. 4.Read, then define the vocab words and answer the question. 5.Check your answers with your seat partner. 6.Write a 5-sentence summary.

Jump Start “You are the leader of a dangerous new expedition. You will be traveling on a long journey to a potentially threatening land and will have to overcome many obstacles, such as food and water shortages, lack of housing and disease.” Work with your seat partner to develop a list of people whose skills and characteristics would be required in your new colony. You will have 5 minutes to complete this task.

The First Successful English Colony

Learning Goals/ Key Questions 1.What were the goals of the Jamestown settlers? 2.Why did they struggle so much at first? 3.Why were they eventually successful?

Jamestown Begins After early English colonies failed, individual people stopped funding them Joint Stock Companies formed – A business in which investors combine their money in order to make a profit 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 First permanent English settlement Began with problems 1.Bad location = swampy 2.Disease = malaria carrying mosquitoes 3.Colonists spent more time mining for gold than building shelter or planting crops Climate –Summer = hot and humid –Winter = bitter cold

Jamestown Only 38 of the original 100 survived the first year John Smith took over in January –Made physical improvements Built a protective wall around the colony –Got the colonists working “He that will not work shall not eat.” –Improved relations with the Powhatan Got them to trade food with the settlers –Smith injured and had to leave in 1609 –That same year about 500 more settlers arrived due to Jamestown’s success

Growing tensions with the Powhatans –Indians stopped trading food –Increased attacks on the settlers and the colonists were afraid to leave the fort Starving Time –Colonists ate rats, mice, snakes –Only 60 survived the second winter –The next spring they were saved again Supply ships brought food, more settlers, and soldiers A new governor also arrived who imposed more discipline Jamestown

John Rolfe arrived with tobacco, a crop that made Jamestown rich tobacco became a cash crop –Grown in order to be sold for money instead of personal use (food, clothes, shelter, etc.) Became widespread and popular From then on, Jamestown’s economy boomed Jamestown

Jamestown Booms Colony became more of a business –Colonists wanted their share of the profit Virginia Co. eventually let settlers own land –This caused them to work even harder on harvesting tobacco First African slaves were brought and the population more than tripled in 2 years Indentured servitude also became a way to increase the amount of workers –A person 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 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

Learning Goals/ Key Questions Fasten your notes into your folder, and highlight notes that help to answer these questions. 1.What were the goals of the Jamestown settlers? 2.Why did they struggle so much at first? 3.Why were they eventually successful?

On Level: Document A 1.Read through Document A one time silently 2.Circle all words you don’t know 3.Beside each paragraph, write a short (2-3 sentence) summary of paragraph’s main idea 4.Answer the Document Analysis questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet 5.Do this for ALL FOUR documents

On Level: Document A Based on Document A, what was the reason for the large amount of deaths in Jamestown? –Native Americans –Environmental Conditions –Lack of Settler Skills Write evidence from the document in the appropriate column/row on the DBQ Document Evidence Chart

Pre AP: Document E On your copy of Document E, complete the following steps: 1.Circle all of the “die” words 2.Code the “die” words: A.NA = death by Native Americans B.EC = death by environmental conditions C.SS = death by settler skills 3.Total deaths for each factor for each of the 3 time periods 4.Create a graph to illustrate the data from all 3 time periods (see example of chalk board) 5.Analyze and rank order the 3 causes of death 6.Answer the following: What surprises you about the data?

The correct data from our DBQ work yesterday is: –EC = 246 –NA = 141 –SS = 12 Does this data match what you initially thought would be the main cause of death in Jamestown? What surprises you about the data? Pre AP: Document E