Jamestown Why did it fail initially? What eventually caused Jamestown to succeed?

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Motivations? – Hakluyt – Roanoke ( )- Raleigh

Joint Stock Company – Susan Constant 105 colonists (all men)

1607 – James River – Social make-up (36/105 were “gentlemen”) January 1607 – only 38 colonists alive

Captain John Smith and Powhattan – Pocahontas - ritual 1608 – John Smith is in charge “work or starve” only 12 died 80% death rate? Major reasons?

1612 – John Rolfe – Tobacco 1620 – exported 40,000 pounds of tobacco – by 1624 – exported 1.5 million pounds – double edged sword? 1618 – Headright System – Merchant Planters

1619 – House of Burgesses Established and First Africans Arrive

1622 – War with Powhattan

1624 – Va. Becomes a Royal Colony Total immigration from = 7200 – total dead = 5000

Jamestown Hippocampus

Jamestown Motivations? – Hakluyt – Roanoke ( )- Raleigh Joint Stock Company – Susan Constant 105 colonists (all men) 1607 – James River – Social make-up (36/105 were “gentlemen”) January 1607 – only 38 colonists alive Captain John Smith and Powhattan – Pocahontas - ritual 1608 – John Smith is in charge “work or starve” only 12 died 80% death rate? Major reasons? 1612 – John Rolfe – Tobacco 1620 – exported 40,000 pounds of tobacco – by 1624 – exported 1.5 million pounds – double edged sword? 1618 – Headright System – Merchant Planters 1619 – House of Burgesses Established and First Africans Arrive 1622 – War with Powhattan 1624 – Va. Becomes a Royal Colony Total immigration from = 7200 – total dead = 5000