1. Period 1,3,6:
Please pick up a paper from the side table, take out your homework, and have a seat right away!
Period 2,7:
Please take out your workbooks and have a seat right away!

2. Ch 2, Sec 5 – Jamestown: The First English Colony

3. The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Roanoke was founded in
1587
The colony ___________ twice
failed

4. Settling Jamestown Setting up Jamestown
In __________, the __________________ started Jamestown
1607
London Company

5. Early Problems Swampy area: Starvation: N-A warfare: Disease
Didn’t plant crops because they were looking for gold
N-A warfare:
Constant battles

6. Starving Time The English ate dogs, rats, and even:
Human corpses
By 1610, only _____ of the _______ people at Jamestown survived
60 of 500

7. Jamestown Survives
_________ married ________ and helped bring peace to the colony
Pocahontas married John Rolfe
Settlers found growing _________ was successful and profitable
Tobacco
John Rolfe was the first to grow tobacco in the colonies

8. Representative Government
Virginia Company creates stable,
Representative Government
voters elect representatives to make laws for them
First form of Representative Government in the colonies:
House of Burgessess

9. New Arrivals Women: Africans:
By 1624, there were women compared to men
Africans:
By 1644, Africans living in VA
300
1000
300

10. All Periods:
Please take out your Jamestown Colony Outline and have a seat right away!

11. Life in the New England Colonies
Town Meetings – settlers discussed and voted on many issues, NE government
Geography:
Very cold winters, warm summers, rocky soil, not good for farming, lots of trees
Economy:
Lumbering
Shipbuilding
Whaling
Trade

12. Life in the Middle Colonies
Wheat, Barley and Rye were known as:
Cash Crops:
Crops that are sold for money at market
These colonies were known as:
Bread Basket Colonies
Because they exported so much grain

13. Growth of Slavery and the Slave Trade
By 1700, _____ made up the majority of the population in GA and SC, because labor changed from indentured servitude to slavery.
Slaves
Indentured Servant:
A person who agrees to work for someone for a fixed amount of time (3-7 years) in return for their transportation costs, food, housing, and clothing

14. Growth of Slavery and the Slave Trade
A person who is owned by someone else and has absolutely no freedoms
During the:
Middle Passage
_____% of Africans died 10

15. The Middle Passage

16. Growth of Slavery and the Slave Trade
The economy of the Southern colonies depends on:
Slavery