1. Standard 1
The student will describe European settlement in North America during the 17th century.

2. Jamestown Virginia Company Clip

3. Jamestown It was started by the Virginia Company in 1607.
This was a joint-stock company.
Established in modern day Virginia.

4. Jamestown
The British created Jamestown with the hope of getting rich like the Spanish. GOD! GLORY! GOLD!
However, there were many difficulties early on:
Disease
Swampy land
Indian attacks
Poor leadership (especially after John Smith left)
Brought gold mining equipment rather than materials to start a colony

5. Mine Mine Mine Clip

6. Jamestown
At one of its lowest points, settlers were known to turn to acts of cannibalism. Quote- “"Whether she was better roasted, boiled or carbonado'd [barbecued], I know not. Such a dish as powdered (salted) wife, I never heard of."

7. Jamestown
The only thing that kept the colony from completely failing was tobacco.
Tobacco became a very important cash crop for the colonies.
Colonists in the South became extremely wealthy cultivating tobacco for European consumers.

8. Early American Government
The Virginia Company allowed the colonists to govern themselves.
The colonists in Jamestown created the House of Burgesses.
It is the first representative government established in the colonies.
You had to be a white male, be at least 17 years old. and own land to vote.

9. HOW SLAVERY CAME TO THE U.S.
history on slavery
Indentured Servants
Indentured servants became the first means to meet this need for labor. In return for free passage to Virginia, a laborer worked for four to five years in the fields before being granted freedom.

10. Native American Relations
In the beginning, Native Americans helped the colonists survive, but due to the British’s attitude towards the Native Americans, the relationship became adversarial.
As Jamestown continues to expand, and gain in population, relations with local tribes began to sour.
Ultimately, the Native Americans lost their land and were forced to either leave the land or be placed on reservations.

11. Savages Clip

12. Let’s take a look at a few sources!!!!!

13. Who made up the first settlers?
50 or so “Gentlemen”
7 members of the Virginia Company
1 Preacher, 1 blacksmith, 1 sailor, 1 barber, 2 bricklayers, 1 mason, 1 tailor, and 10 or so laborers.
And about 100 or so people without defined positions.
What do you notice about these numbers?

14. What would be the possible motivations you would need to start your life over in a new environment?

15. Make Your Own Recruitment Poster
Scenario: You are a member of the Pebblebrook Company, a competing company of the Virginia Company. Learning from the mistakes of the Jamestown settlers, your company has decided to start a new settlement in the new world. Your task is to make a recruitment poster for your company in order to make it as successful as possible.

16. For Your Poster You Need:
A Visual Representation that attracts people to the New World.
In addition, you must answer the following questions on the back of your poster.
What kinds of skills did you deem necessary for your expedition?
How many people would you take with you?
How will you get people to come?

17. What was the House of Burgesses?
The home of Puritan leaders
Home of the governor of Virginia
The Parliament of Virginia
An elected governing body in Virginia

18. Why was the House of Burgesses significant?
It sat as court in the Salem Witch Trials.
It created a series of trade laws for the colonies.
It imposed and collected British taxes.
It was the start of representative government in Virginia.

19. The Virginia House of Burgesses
Established a model of representative government
Was established by King James I
Provided a way for people to secure religious freedom
Was put in place in 1607 as a temporary government

20. What was the name of the first representative body in the American colonies?
The Albany Plan of Union
The Continental Congress
The Sons of Liberty
The Virginia House of Burgesses

21. The first successful British colony in North America was
Jamestown, Virginia
Quebec, Canada
Jamestown, Massachusetts
New Amsterdam, New Netherlands

22. The Virginia colony was built largely due to the labor of people who agreed to work for a master for a set number of years in exchange for that master paying their way to North America. These laborers were then promised land once their time of servitude was over. Such workers were known as
Slaves.
Contract laborers.
Nativists.
Indentured servants.

23. Which colonial region was most known for plantations, large numbers of slaves, and the production of rice and tobacco?
New England
Southern
Middle
Atlantic

24. Who was Powhatan?
A native American chief who made peace with the Pilgrims and helped them through their first winter.
A Native American chief who ruled over much of the Virginia territory when English settlers arrived.
A Native American chief who was shot and killed by New Englanders in Rhode Island.
The first African slave to arrive in Virginia by way of the Middle Passage.

25. What role did tobacco play in the history of Jamestown?
It was the main crop the founders of Jamestown hoped to grow when the first established the colony.
It caused fighting when the colonial government outlawed the crop and would not allow it to be imported.
It turned out to be the cash crop that saved the colony.
Although Virginians tried to raise tobacco, the crop failed miserably.

26. He led a rebellion in 1676 that forced Virginia’s leaders to recognize the growing discontent among small landowners. The uprising he led also showed the need to do something about shortages of land and led to slavery serving as the colony’s primary labor system. Who was he?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John C. Calhoun
Nathaniel Bacon

27. Which of the following list is associated with the southern colonies?
Subsistence farming, slavery, profitable shipping industry, Puritan faith
Commerce, diversity, originally home to Dutch settlements
Tobacco, rice, plantation system, large numbers of slaves
Fur trade, with trials, Mayflower Compact