1. Why did it take England so long to finally cont
Why did it take England so long to finally cont. the exploration of North America?
Explain the significance of the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Importance of Queen Elizabeth I.

3. England heads to North America
Focus: Virginia

4. England emerges as world power
Strong monarch with constitution
United religiously (Protestant)
Sense of nationalism….Why?
New literature (Shakespeare)
Dominant the Seas…navy 300yrs

5. Push factors to colonize…
England’s population increasing. ..Why?
New policy enclosure
Fence in land for farming
Hurts poor (less/no land farm off of)
Increase unemployment
Tradition of primogeniture
1st born inherits ALL of daddy’s land
Umm...#2?...#3?...#4?....NO LAND FOR U!!
Go to America!?!?!?!

6. Roanoke Colony “the lost colony”
1587 Sir Walter Raleigh sent out new expedition (100 settlers) mainly families
John White governor friends with Manteo tribe
1st attempt to colonize in North America by the English

7. 1606 King James I cont. exploration
Gives VA company a charter (permission to settle in the New World)
Set up joint stock companies
A group of investors pool their $$$ hoping to make a profit off any newly founded colonies
ALL ABOUT $$$$$

8. Jamestown…May 1607
1st permanent English Colony in N.A.

9. Jamestown
Colonists at Jamestown faced many struggles Location low swampy mosquito infested area…malaria Landed inside of the Powhatan Confederacy Most did not want to work - interested in getting rich **employees of the Virginia Company **supposed to direct their labors toward the production of profits for the investors Disease and starvation were widespread John Smith – Important leader during Starving Time 2

10. Capt. John Smith
1608 took control and whipped the colonists into shape
Helped trade food w/Indians, built houses, explored the area
Imposed military discipline “no work no food”
By Jan 1608 only 38 original settlers still alive
Later captured by Powhatan tribe but saved by Pocahontas
Helped keep peace b/w
the settlers and tribe

11. Winter 1609-1610 Aka “starving time”
Disease and hunger ravaged Jamestown.
Two desperate colonists were tied to posts and left to starve as punishment for raiding the colonies' stores.
One colonist even took to cannibalism, eating his own wife.
About 100 colonists survive out of 500

12. Colony begins to prosper…..

13. TOBACCO $$$$$$$
1612 John Rolfe planted the 1st “cash crop” TOBACCO for the colony
Huge hit in England and saves the colony
Jamestown colony now very profitable
Later Rolfe and Pocahontas marry
Gave peace b/w the colonists and Powhatan tribe
Unfortunately Pocahontas dies and the next 20yrs Powhatan tribe and settlers constantly fighting…

14. Time to harvest the tobacco….
Who’s going to do it??

15. Indentured servants Worked under contract for 5-7 yrs
Employer provided food, shelter, and passage to America
Time up: received a suit of clothes, tools or land
Eventually make up a large portion of VA population

16. Later replaced by Africans
Headright system
VA company offered 50 acres of land to every person who paid his own passage OR
50 acres of land to any plantation owner who paid passage for someone else
Later replaced by Africans
1619 Dutch ship land in Jamestown with 20 Africans
Originally treated as indentured servants but overtime became views as property

17. Road to self gov’t Colonists being to rule themselves (locally)
Create House of Burgess July 1619
1st law making representative assembly in America
Only white male landowners could be chosen
Could increase taxes, make laws

18. Bacon’s Rebellion
More colonists will move westward causing clashes with Native Americans
Ppl moving west and ppl on coast have two different opinions about N.A
West: most likely poor indentured servants who want to expand west on land reserved for Native Americans
East (coast): wealthy upper class who are trading with Native Americans for fur…don’t want to upset them
Governor Berkeley favored the positive relations with Native Americans and demanded the colonists to do so as well

19. Nathaniel Bacon tobacco planter on the frontier (aristocrat)
Launch an attack on Jamestown in 1676
Army bunch of indentured servants
Able to get control of Jamestown
Bacon get sick and die and rebellion collapse
Effects
Jamestown burned down
House of Burgess open more land in the frontier to settlers
Colonists rely more on slave labor than indentured servants (fear of uprising)

20. Review Larger population Cash crop: tobacco Colony created to make $$$
Issues with Powhatan federation (how solved)
Beg. Self gov’t rule: House of Burgess
Labor source: Indentured servants then slavery
Bacon’s Rebellion leads to slavery