1. The Southern Colonies
Chapter 3, Section 1

2. Virginia Jamestown Colony
First permanent English colony in the Americas
Est. May 14, 1607 by the London Company
Many hardships first few years
No farming experience
No carpentry skills
Poor area to colonize
No brains, either!
Over 2/3 of original 105 colonists perished

3. Virginia cont. Enter John Smith Arrived looking for gold
Met Pocahontas, of the Powhatan Indians
Showed the colors of the wind
Almost killed by her fiancé
English colonists attack Indians
Pocahontas nearly dies, but John Smith takes the bullet

4. Virginia cont. Enter John Smith Better leadership for colonists
Established trading relationships with local Powhatan Confederacy of Native Americans
Traded food
Taught how to farm
Showed best hunting sites

5. Virginia cont. “The Starving Time”
Winter of 1609
400 more colonists arrived
By spring 1610, only this many lived… 60
Do you think you would have survived?

6. Virginia cont. John Rolfe War with the Powhatan
Introduced new tobacco leaf that thrived in Jamestown
Turned Jamestown around from a failure to a profitable success
Married Pocahontas (first interracial marriage recorded in Americas)
War with the Powhatan
1622 onward
London Company lost rights to colony in 1624 due to lack of protection
Became a royal colony under the crown

7. Labor
Draw a Venn Diagram
Indentured servants vs. slaves

8. Bacon’s Rebellion Francis Bacon
Tired of his name being made fun of, he rebelled against the colonial leaders of Jamestown in 1676
ACTUALLY, led former servants on revolt against colony because of trading with Indians
Believed that taking Indian land should be okay
Rebellion ended soon after his death

9. Maryland Founded as a religious colony
George Calvert asked for a charter in 1620s, didn’t get it
Son, Cecilius Calvert (Second Lord Baltimore) got the charter in 1632 and started the colony
Catholic refuge
1634
200 colonist traveled over
Lessons learned from Jamestown
Toleration Acts of 1649
Designed to prevent religious persecution between groups
First of its kind