1. The Settlement
of the
Southern Colonies

2. Virginia
JAMESTOWN-1607

3. ***English Colonization
JAMESTOWN SETTLED AS A BUSINESS VENTURE JOINT STOCK COMPANY-VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON –investors looking to make money(GOLD-1607)
JAMESTOWN WAS THE FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA.

4. Chesapeake Bay

5. The Jamestown Nightmare
100 Colonists first came-most were rich men-most died off but more kept coming
***1609 Starving time
“Gentlemen” colonists would not work themselves.
Game in forests & fish in river uncaught.
Settlers wasted time looking for gold instead of hunting or farming.

6. If you want to eat-you must work…
***Captain John Smith: The Right Man for the Job-President of Jamestown until 1609-made men work to eat
If you want to eat-you must work…

7. Jamestown Settlement, 1609

8. Jamestown Fort & Settlement Map

9. Jamestown Fort & Settlement (Computer Generated)

10. Jamestown Housing

11. Jamestown Settlement

12. Jamestown Chapel 1611

13. JOHN WHITE’S PAINTINGS

16. Pocahontas “saves” Captain John Smith
Rebecca-A 1616 engraving

17. DISNEY MYTH

23. Powhatan Indian Village

24. Indian Foods

25. ***Culture Clash between Indians and Settlers
***General mistrust because of different cultures & languages and views on land ownership-Indians did not believe you could own land.
Indians forced to move west

26. Powhatan Uprising of 1622-Chief Opie

27. **TOBACCO SAVES JAMESTOWN
**John Rolfe made Jamestown profitable with tobacco planting

28. Early Colonial Tobacco
1618 — Virginia produces 20,000 pounds of tobacco.
1629 — Virginia produces 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco.

29. **SOUTHERN COLONIES
NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA,MARYLAND, AND GEORGIA ARE ADDED TO SOUTHERN COLONIES-ALL WILL HAVE THE SAME ECONOMIES, SOCIAL, POLITICAL. AND RELIGIOUS CHARACTERISTICS

30. SOUTHERN COLONIES- SETTLED BY PEOPLE SEEKING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES SUCH AS:
CAVALIERS-English nobility who received large land grants in Virginia from the King of England.Plantations.
POOR ENGLISH,SCOTS,IRISH IMMIGRANTS- small farmers or artisans and settled in the Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia
INDENTURED SERVANTS-(also came from the UK) worked on tobacco plantations for a period of time to work off passage. Usually 5-7 years.

32. CHARLESTON,S.C-South’s largest port city

33. ***SOUTHERN ECONOMIES
PLANTATIONS-BIG FARMS WHICH GREW CASH CROPS -CAVALIERS OWNED THEM.
TOBACCO, RICE, AND INDIGO GROWN FOR “CASH CROPS” FOR TRADE/PROFIT-later COTTON
SUBSISTENCE FARMING,HUNTING, AND TRADING in the Mountains and valleys of the APPALACHIAN FOOTHILLS

34. THE SLAVE TRADE

35. ** SLAVERY
Some Africans worked as indentured servants and earned their freedom.
The first Africans were brought against their will to Jamestown in 1619 to work on tobacco plantations and over time larger and larger numbers of enslaved Africans were forcibly brought to the Southern Colonies.

36. TRIANGULAR SLAVE TRADE

37. Slave Auctions

38. Slave ships-Brooks

39. MIDDLE PASSAGE
THE PART OF THE TRIANGULAR SLAVE TRADE WHICH BROUGHT SLAVES TO THE AMERICAS-CALLED THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

40. 17c Population in the Chesapeake
WHY this large increase in African American population??

43. Slavery in the Colonies

44. Virginia House of Burgesses

45. **Political life in the Southern colonies
VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES-ESTABLISHED BY THE 1640’S WAS THE FIRST ELECTED ASSEMBLY IN THE NEW WORLD.
MAINLY PLANTATION OWNERS
COULD MAKE LAWS (LEGISLATIVE) AND RAISE TAXES
TODAY IT IS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

46. **SOUTHERN COLONIES SOCIAL LIFE
PLANTATION OWNERS RULED.
Virginia social structure based on status and ownership of land.
Maintained an allegiance to the Church of England (Anglican)
Closer social ties to Britain than did those in the other colonies.

47. **FUTURE CONFLICTS
The development of a slavery based economy in the Southern colonies led to conflict between the North and South and the American Civil War

48. Quiz on VUS 2 and 3 notes: Wed. 9/14
Test Review: Thurs. 9/15
VUS 2 and 3 Test: Fri. 9/16