1. Pre-AP Monday Start your agenda!
Turn to page 23 of your notebook and get out your Jamestown notes!

2. Monday Start your agenda!
Turn to page 22 of your notebook and get out your Jamestown notes!

3. First Successful English Colony in the New World
Jamestown Colony
First Successful English Colony in the New World

4. Essential Question
What made Jamestown the first successful English colony, and what effects did it have on the New World?

5. Monday 9/18 Class Notes Jamestown Continued

6. Joint-Stock Companies
Companies invest their money in an idea, expecting greater profits in return

7. Virginia Company Had the right to begin new colonies in North America
Extended English rights to its colonists

8. John Rolfe
Arrived in Jamestown in with Spanish strands of tobacco
Married Pocahontas and advocated for peace with the Powhatans
Expanded Jamestown’s tobacco economy, leading to a time of prosperity and increased colonization of the James River

9. John Rolfe

10. Jamestown: The Growth of Government
In 1619, the governor of Virginia called a meeting of the Virginia Assembly.
By the 1640s, the burgesses became a separate legislative body, called the Virginia House of Burgesses.

11. Representative Government
A system in which people elect representatives in order to make laws and lead the government

12. Representative Government
How could we create a representative government in this class?

13. Representative Government
Examples:
Virginia House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

14. Virginia House of Burgesses
Gave settlers the opportunity to control their own government.
It became the General Assembly of Virginia, which continues to this day.

15. Reading House of Burgesses

16. Discuss responses to EQ.

17. Homework due tomorrow: Mayflower Compact

18. Credits
Virginia Studies Curriculum Framework, Commonwealth of Virginia, Board of Education, 2001
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