1. Adriana Mencia Maggie Aube Ikmat Ibrahim Block 3
Jamestown
Adriana Mencia
Maggie Aube
Ikmat Ibrahim
Block 3

2. History
The founder of Jamestown is the Virginia Company by King James I.
It is located in eastern Virginia on the banks of the James River.
Jamestown was the first Amercia permanent English colony in Virginia on May 24, 1606
Jamestown was established to search for silver and gold and to find a well river route to the Pacific Ocean that would allow them to establish trading with the Orient.
King James I
Map of Jamestown
Virginia Company

3. Government King James Ⅰ was in charge of the government
Captain John Smith
King James Ⅰ creates the Second Charter
Lord de la Warr is elected as governor
General Assembly and Council of State
House of Burgesses
A meeting of The House of Burgesses on July 30th, 1619

4. Economy People were brought over to work at Jamestown
The Tobacco trade
Plantations
Taxes
The Headright system
Plantation of tobacco plants

5. Population English Gentlemen 1619: First Africans
The first settlers
: The Virginia Company sent 3,570 people to America
Highest peak of population: 6,000
1619: First Africans
"20 and odd Negros": freemen and indentured servants (NOT SLAVES)
1621: Arrival of marriageable women
got married in order to begin to help the population to grow or for family or political ties.
John Smith saved by pocahontas jamestown colony.

6. Cultural values Worth Ethic Family Life Children Life
Role of men and women
Children Life
Educational systems
* Cultural conflict in early Jamestown was deadly. Powhatans sought to limit the potential
expansion of the colony, killing most of the English who hunted or explored far from the fort.
Jamestown men worked “highly individualistic, motivated by the hope of material gain…”
The sleeping quarters of the settlers in the Jamestown colonies.

7. Religion King James and Protestant Christianity Anglican Faith
Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall
Anglican Faith
Anglicanism is “a tradition within Christianity which comprises the Church of England”
Puritans and Calvinism
“Christian obligation to know and serve God”
1620: Protestant Christianity remained the dominant religion in Jamestown.
Native American Powhatans
Anglicans mistrusted religious views of Powhatans
“raiding parties”
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe brought peace between Indians and English colonists.
Upon arriving at Cape Henry in 1607, the settlers planted a cross to represent the Anglican Church of England

8. Important People John Smith The Powhatan Indian John Rolfe Pocahontas
John Rolfe Pocahontas John Smith The Powhatan Indians

9. Major Events Starving Times First Anglo-Powhatan War
Second Anglo-Powhatan War
The House of Burgesses
Second Anglo-Powhatan War, Indians are starting the war.
The Colonist and the Indians fighting against each other
The wedding of Pocahontas and the colonist John Rolfe

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