Grab a Sheet and Packet from the Front Table DO NOT WRITE ON PACKET Read the Primary Source
The Lost Colony
Things to consider when working with Primary and Secondary Sources: Consider the Source – Who is the author? Do they have bias? Consider the Support – Did the author back up his opinions with solid fact?
Take Out Roanoke Colony Worksheet and Finish
The Lost Colony
Rich merchants wanted to try again Formed Joint-stock Company Called it Virginia Company
144 Settlers in 3 ships 40 died en route Landed near a the Chesapeake Bay and the James river and built on a peninsula Lack of good farmland, marshy and hot
Jamestown founded April – New resupply ship arrives 38 colonists alive John Smith the leader for first 2 years
1609 – 400 more settlers arrive to boost the colony Winter of “The Starving Time” Spring alive
Colony taken from investors and made first Royal Colony John Rolfe organizes colonize Forces people to work Tobacco becomes cash crop
The House of Burgesses First form of Representative government in the Colonies July 1619
Slaves brought to colony in 1640’s to work the tobacco fields
Chapter 2 Section 2-4