1. Chesapeake Bay Opening: Why do you move?
Activity: Jamestown and Maryland Notes
Closure: Solving the Mystery, Roanoke

2. Opening Question
Why do people move to a different town, state, country?

3. Settling the Chesapeake

4. The Lost Colony Roanoke Colony (1854 - 1590)
1st Colony Established (1854)
Mostly Men
Humphrey Gilbert & Walter Raleigh
1st Abandoned (1586)
2nd Colony Established (1587)
Governor John White
Men, Women & Children
2nd Abandonment (1590)
Solving the Mystery - Theories

5. The 3rd Colony (Jamestown)
The Virginia Company 1606
If a company founded the settlement what is their goal?
May 1607
Three ships harbor in the Chesapeake
Godspeed, Discovery, Susan Constant
What to do first?

6. Jamestown Fort

7. Jamestown First Settlers Captain John Smith
104 Males
Captain John Smith
Elected to Government in 1608
Martial Law "He who does not work, will not eat."
Gun powder explosion – sent back to England
The Starving Time (1609 – 1610)

8. Jamestown John Rolfe Tobacco Production in Virginia
Experiments with Tobacco
Europe becomes addicted
Tobacco becomes a cash crop
Tobacco Production in Virginia
1618: 20,000 lbs.
1622: 60,000 lbs.
1627: 500,000 lbs.
1629: 1.5 mil lbs.

9. Indentured Servants “Headright” System Indentured Servants
Individuals would receive 50 – 100 acres for every person coming to the new world
Wealthy would receive 50 acres by paying passage for indentured servants
Indentured Servants
Poor Europeans
Work to gain freedom
White “Slaves”

10. African Slaves Slave Trade The Middle Passage
Portuguese and English largest traders
Most slaves captured during conquest
The Middle Passage
Shipping from
Africa to Americas

11. Middle Passage Conditions

12. African Slaves

13. Settling Maryland Why does the Jamestown settlement begin to expand?
George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
Refuge for Catholics
Tobacco Farming
Local Governments

14. Powhatan – Virginian Relations
European Settlements
Powhatan Confederacy

15. Indian Uprising (1622) Powhatan Attacks Peace is Negotiated (1623)
60 people killed
Peace is Negotiated (1623)
Then Colonists Poison 200 Natives
Policy of “perpetual enmity”

16. Solving the Mystery
Based on what we know and the first hand accounts, provide a theory for why the Roanoke colony was abandoned…
What were the problems they were facing?
How was the relationship between the Natives and colonists?
What evidence do we have?

17. Problems in the Chesapeake
Based upon what you know what problems did the colonists in the Chesapeake face?
What is the “Social Contract”?
How does the Social Contract pertain to Nathanial Bacon and his followers?

18. Bacon’s Rebellion Nathanial Bacon Followers Problems
Cambridge Educated
Planter in Virginia Colony
Followers
Newly freed men (former indentured servants)
Working poor of the society
Problems
No land for expansion
Poverty gap (Rich v. Poor)

19. The Start of Rebellion Causes Summer 1675 Winter 1675 – 76
Dropping Tobacco Prices
Rising Taxes
Price increase in English goods (mercantilism)
Summer 1675
Frontiersman attack local tribe
Gov. Berkley denounces the attack
Discontent with Gov. Berkley
Winter 1675 – 76
Susquehannocks counter attack
36 Colonists lay dead

20. Just Add Bacon Nathanial Bacon Ending the Rebellion
Takes control of frontiersmen
Attacks the Indians
Attacks Jamestown (Gov. Berkley)
Ending the Rebellion
Defeat of Indians and beginning of the harvest
Nathanial Bacon dies January 1677

21. Results of Bacon Indian Relations Virginian Society Slavery
Indians are seen as mortal enemies
Extermination of Indians when needed
Virginian Society
Still majority male – profit seekers
Little family or institutional cohesion
Slavery
Virginians turn to African slaves, slavery is ingrained
Poor whites always above African slaves
No property, voting, testifying, politics, travelling or marrying

22. Continued Population Growth