1. Today we will… Objective Procedure
We will identify and explain the reasons for the colonization AND the growth of representative government and institutions at Jamestown using a song, observations, cloze notes, a map, and a timeline.
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2. Colonization Beginnings and Journeys
Jamestown through New England

3. 1607 – Critical Year for England
Virginia Company establishes joint venture to establish a permanent settlement in North America.
John Smith takes the lead. “If a man does not work, let him also not eat.”

4. Jamestown Fort

5. Occupations of Jamestown Settlers

6. Lyrics from Pocahontas Copyright - Disney
The Virginia Company
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Lyrics from Pocahontas
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7. In sixteen hundred seven we sail the open sea For glory, God, and gold And the Virginia Company

8. For the New World is like heaven And we’ll all be rich and free Or so we have been told By the Virginia Company

9. For glory, God, and gold And the Virginia Company

10. On the beaches of Virginny There’s diamonds like debris There silver rivers flow And gold you pick right off a tree

11. With a nugget for my Winnie And another one for me And all the rest’ll go To the Virginia Company

12. It’s glory, God, and gold And the Virginia Company

13. The Virginia Company founded Jamestown for ECONOMIC reasons
The Virginia Company founded Jamestown for ECONOMIC reasons. They wanted to make a profit from their joint venture investment.

14. In 1607, Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in America.

15. Where is Jamestown located?
In Virginia a Southern Colony

16. Add Jamestown to the map

17. Today, Jamestown is located on an island in the James River.
This is an aerial view of part of Jamestown fort.

18. The Houses of Parliament, where English laws were made
The King issued charters to the Virginia Company that extended English rights to the colonists.
The Houses of Parliament, where English laws were made
The Capitol at Williamsburg, where the House of Burgesses met to make Virginia’s laws

19. As Jamestown grew, so did its system of government.

20. In 1619, the governor of Virginia called a meeting of the Virginia Assembly. The Assembly included two citizen representatives, called “burgesses.”

21. What was this system of government called?
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT OR REPUBLICANISM!
Houses in Jamestown looked like English houses.

22. The burgesses came from each of the divisions of Virginia.

23. And the House of Burgesses Made Laws ...
ACTIVITY: Choose one of the laws listed above that you think would be important to the Jamestown and other Virginia colonists and explain why...
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24. The Assembly also included the governor’s council and the governor.
John Smith was an early governor of Virginia.

25. At that time, only adult men who owned property were considered citizens.

26. The government of the Virginia colony was based on the English model of a representative government.
This is the church in Jamestown where the House of Burgesses first met.

27. The House of Burgesses was modeled after the English Parliament.

28. The House of Burgesses was the first elected legislative body in America, giving settlers the opportunity to control their own government.
This is an old engraving showing colonial Virginia men voting.

30. Today it is called the General Assembly and is the oldest legislative body in the western hemisphere.
An 1800s drawing of the General Assembly building in Richmond

31. The House of Burgesses became the Virginia General Assembly, which continues to this day.

32. Within 15 years…
Colonists had developed towns called “boroughs” along James River.
1617 Virginia Company encouraged settlement by establishing private ownership of property and selling parcels to individuals.
1619 The Virginia House of Burgesses met being the first legislature or body for REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT in America. (Later restricted in 1624 but…)
Colonists had created plantation systems that grew mainly tobacco but also rice and sugar using first white and black indentured servants…

33. Jamestown became a more diverse colony by 1620.
One month after the House of Burgesses establishes representative government, the first Africans arrive in Jamestown.

34. What was the impact of the arrival of Africans on the Jamestown settlement?
African Americans re-enact slaves listening to a slave preacher on a plantation.

35. Africans arrived in Jamestown against their will
Africans arrived in Jamestown against their will. It is believed that they arrived as baptized Christians and therefore were labeled indentured servants for a period of 5 to 7 years.

36. But Virginia planters soon saw that they would need a cheap supply of labor for a long time.
Tidewater plantations were expanding because people could make so much money from tobacco.

37. The arrival of Africans made it possible to expand the tobacco economy
The arrival of Africans made it possible to expand the tobacco economy. Africans were imported directly to make up the plantation work force.

38. Complete the timeline in your spiral
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