1. Early Colonies American Colonies
Supplementary Chapter 1 Material

2. Jamestown First Colonial attempt after Roanoke
An English Foothold in North America
England did not want to risk the money to start a colony, so they granted charters
Permission slip to colonize an area – king collects taxes from that charter

4. Jamestown

5. Jamestown Problems nobleman settlers – no women or children
consumed by their gold search
38 out of 150 died the first winter
600 women and children came in the spring
Famine and war with the Powhatan
60 survived through that winter

6. Jamestown
The Fix
New leaders – very strict – “He that will not work, shall not eat” – John Smith
His leadership helped the English settlement of Jamestown survive
grew tobacco – “brown gold”

7. Indentured Servants Indentured Servants
People who moved to America, agreeing to work a plot of land for 4-7 years to pay for that passage.
African Americans were brought in as indentured servants in 1619, and after 4-7 years received land and freedom

8. Clashes with Native Americans
As colonist needed more land, so they took land from the Native Americans
The English had made a law forbidding the Irish to marry or even dress like an Englishman – they treated the Native Americans the same.
Native Americans led many successful raids on Virginia’s colony and eventually cost the Virginia company so much money that they turned the colony over to the king. It became a Royal Colony.

9. Bacon’s Rebellion
While chasing Doeg warriors Bacon killed 14 friendly Sadquhannock and executed 5 of their chiefs during a peace conference.
This started a war between these Native American groups and settlers.

10. Bacon’s Rebellion Berkeley refused to help Bacon.
Bacon was one of Berkely’s governors
Bacon created his own army without Berkeley’s approval
Berkeley called it an illegal army
Bacon marched on Jamestown and set the town on fire.
Fled on ship, and died a month later due to illness.