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What can you tell me about the Jamestown settlement?
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Jamestown
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Jamestown 16 years after Roanoke before another attempt at settlement
1606 the Virginia Company gets a charter from King James I Charter called for a joint-stock company A company funded and run by investors, who share the company’s profits and losses
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Jamestown 1607, Virginia Company sends colonists About 100
First settlers included many gentlemen (36) Also barber, tailor, carpenter, mason, and laborers
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May 14, 1607: Settled 60 miles up the James River- Why?
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How do they compare? Native Village Fort at Jamestown
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Hardship Jamestown nearly failed All this = famine and death
Native attacks Not physically prepared for labor Weather, swamp, diseases Initially no firm leadership All this = famine and death
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There is hope… Powhatan Confederacy trades with settlers
More men and supplies arrive Captain John Smith developed into strong leader
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Captain John Smith Captured by Natives, released as a friend
“He who does not work, will not eat” Strengthened defenses 1609- Injured, returns home
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Starving Time October 1609 to March 1610 60 of 214 survive
Abandon Jamestown until new Governor arrives with supplies
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Jamestown Moving Forward
Marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe eases relations with Natives Rolfe planted tobacco seeds from the Caribbean, sweeter and milder Tobacco makes Jamestown very profitable
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Tobacco Demanded laborers Indentured servants- System of Headrights
Work for a master to pay for their voyage, usually years System of Headrights Gave 50 acres to those who paid for passage or bought stock Additional land for bringing family and servants
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Self-Government 1618, begin electing own assembly for law making
Virginia government includes: Governor, 6 councilors, 2 Reps from each of the 10 colonial towns Assembly called House of Burgesses (bûr'jĭs)
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The Truth as best we know it.
Pocahontas The Truth as best we know it.
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The End
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