1. English Settlement Begins (They are the latecomers to the game...)

2. After the changes wrought by four centuries, it is not easy to imagine the America seen by the small band of settlers who gained for England a foothold in the New World. They had left behind the comfortable limits and familiar rhythms of European civilization for a boundless and unpredictable world in which vigilance, courage, and endurance were needed just to survive.

3. -Roanoke, NC 1585-1587 England's first two settlements in the New World differed in character and purpose: The first short-lived colony, inhabited entirely by men, was set up as a stake in the newly discovered Americas and a base of privateering against French and Spanish shipping. The second was intended as a permanent colony and was settled by men, women and children. Their disappearance is a mystery that remains unsolved nearly 400 years later. Sir Walter Raleigh Lost Colony John White Virginia Dare

4. Jamestown -Virginia Company Jamestown, 1607 John Smith Hard times- John Smith says, “no work no eat”. Powhatan 1609 Starving Time

5. Clashes w/ NA -desire for land led to conflicts -European feelings of superiority -no intermarriage with Indians groups -fought wars with Powhatan Indians -Virginia becomes royal colony so that King’s Army can protect settlers

6. Brown Gold -more colonists Royal Colony now so King appoints gov’nor (Gov’nor Berkley) but local assembly is the 1 st democratic gov’t House of Burgesses -tobacco as a cash crop John Rolfe Pocahontas -headright system 50 acres to each new colonist -indentured servants -first slaves imported 1619

7. First Rebellion- One of Many in U.S. History... -Indian dispute on the frontier -Colonists ask for protection from Virginia Gov’t, but were denied -1676 Nathaniel Bacon led the frontier colonists in a rebellion against the Virginia gov’t -”We have no representation in the House of Burgess” -Jamestown set on fire, gov’nor flees - Nat. Bacon dies one month later, rebellion subdued. -showed signs of discontent with leadership Is this like Pope’s rebellion of 1680 ?