1. Jammin’ Jamestown

2. Christopher Columbus 1492, discovered the New World
Spain began exploring and colonizing (conquering the Aztecs and Incas)
Spain brought back gold and treasures

3. Envious England Jealous of Spain’s good fortune Wanted gold and riches
Queen Elizabeth permits Sir Walter Raleigh to create a colony

4. Roanoke Raleigh sent John White Supplies at the colony ran low
White returned to England
When he returned all 117 colonist had disappeared
Called the “Lost Colony”

5. Roanoke

6. 20 Years Later
King James I issued a charter to the Virginia Company to create a colony
Reason - $$$$$
1607 – One hundred and five colonists arrived in Virginia
Named colony Jamestown after King James I

7. What the colonists thought they would find…

8. What they actually found…

9. Disastrous Start to Jamestown
Swampy conditions
Mosquitoes spread malaria
Unhealthy drinking water
Starvation
Many died

10. Captain John Smith Leader of Jamestown
Complained colonists weren’t farmers but only gold seekers
Established strict work rules
NO WORK, NO FOOD!!!

11. Suspicious Natives Didn’t like or trust colonists Hostile relations
They capture Smith with plans to execute him

12. Pocahontas Daughter of chief, thirteen years old
Throws herself in front of Smith to save him
Helped colony with food

13. Pocahontas (continued)
Smith returned to England because of an injury
Pocahontas taken prisoner by colonists
She learned Christianity
Married colonists John Rolfe
Moved to England, had a child

14. Tobacco saves Jamestown
Had to eat rats, cats and dogs to survive
Used wood from houses for firewood
Began farming tobacco
Tobacco became a huge money maker, saving the colony

15. Jammin’ Jamestown

16. Jamestown’s Government
House of Burgesses (1st form of representative government in North America)
Met to create laws for the colony

17. The Settlement of Jamestown