1. Lesson #1- Population THE ROANOKE COLONY
Unit #1- United Stated Colonial Settlement
Lesson #1- Population
THE ROANOKE COLONY

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3. Lesson #1-Population: Roanoke
Vocabulary
1) Colony- a group of people who have settled in a new country and are still subject to the mother country.
2) Colonists- a member of a colony
3) Settlements-an act of populating an area
4) Indentured Servants- people who paid their way to the new world by agreeing to work for a number of years.

4. Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
Timeline- Using the information from the reading on page 3 to complete at least 6 entries on your timeline.
1) Queen Elizabeth I gives Sir Walter Raleigh a charter to establish a colony in North America.

5. Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
Timeline Continued 2) Sir Walter Raleigh and 100 men set sail for North America. 3) Sir Francis Drake visits the colony and finds the colonists malnourished and he takes them back to England. 4) Spring1587- John White guides a second group of settlers including men, women, and children. This included his own daughter who was pregnant.

6. Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
Timeline Continued 5) Fall White’s daughter gives birth to first child born in the English colony. The colonists are not prepared for the new world and they convince John White to return to England for supplies. 6) It takes three years for White to return to the Roanoke colony. When he returns, everyone is gone.

7. Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
Time to write !!!!! Yippppeeeee!!! Assignment- Pretend you are John White. The year is You have just returned to the Roanoke Colony. You are totally shocked at what you find once you reach the colony. Write an entry in your journal describing in great detail, what you have seen or experienced.

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9. Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
Focus Question: What happened as a result of the British settlement at Jamestown? Read Page 5 in your group. Each person should read a paragraph. Answer the first question on page 5.

10. Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
Summarize the selection on Jamestown. The Jamestown colony grew in1609 when men and women arrived. Tobacco became an important cash crop. Many slaves were brought to the colony in order to farm the land.

11. Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
What happened as a result of the British settlement at Jamestown? At the Jamestown colony, John Rolfe planted tobacco as a cash crop. Tobacco requires mostly hand labor and workers were needed. In order to attract colonist, the Virginia Company promised to pay their expenses. Later in 1619, slaves were brought to the colony in order to work the tobacco fields.

12. Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
Timeline-
1) 1609
2) 1610
3) 1614 4)
5) 1619
6) Sometime after 1619.

13. Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
1) Women and children arrive in Jamestown. 2) John Rolfe introduced tobacco as a crop in the Jamestown colony. 3) Rolfe harvested his first crop of West Indies tobacco in Virginia, it was a huge success.

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4) – Tobacco became Virginia’s cash crop. 5) A Dutch ship exchanged 20 African captives who became indentured servants. 6) Later, African arrivals were sold and enslaved for the rest of their lives.

15. Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
While watching this video, think about the each of the colonies, how were they similar? How were they different? Take some notes to help you out !!! Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies

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Make a T-Chart like this one Similarities Differences

17. Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
Jamestown and Plymouth- SIMILARITIES
Both groups of colonist came from England
Both built forts for protection
Both built small houses like they had in England
Both brought language, customs and laws from England.
Both had many struggles adapting to the New World.
Both were involved in farming
Both had a part in forming a government in the New World.

18. Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
Jamestown and Plymouth- DIFFERENCES
Jamestown was in Virginia in 1607 and Plymouth was in Massachusetts in 1620
Jamestown colonists came for gold and the Plymouth colonist came for religious purposes
Jamestown colonists farmed tobacco while the Plymouth colonists farmed crops, pigs and cows.

19. Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
What is the Mayflower Compact??? Mayflower Compact Focus Question What exactly did the settler hope to accomplish with the Mayflower Compact? Answer: they wanted to make sure that there were laws and they were applied equally to both religious groups since there was no law in place. This was the colonist first try at self-government.