1. Jamestown & the Virginia Colony
US History: Mrs. Lacks

2. Exploring Virginia
1606: Bartholomew Gosnold’s joint- stock company, known as the Virginia Company of London, received a charter from King James I of England for a settlement in the New World. 

3. Susan Constant Discovery Godspeed 104 Settlers (men & boys)
Led by Captain Christopher Newport
Primary purpose: economic (sought riches in the new world)
Discovery
Godspeed

4. Exploring Virginia (Apr 1607)
Possible 2nd Settlement, Hog Island
Jamestown
First Landing, Cape Henry (VA Beach)

5. Jamestown

6. Jamestown

7. Jamestown Life was more than difficult Settlers faced
lack of food
rampant disease
possible attacks by Natives
Brackish water
they fought amongst each other for political power, and work load
Didn’t know the landscape of Virginia
Not educated in how to plant crops here

8. Starving Time Winter of 1609-10
Disease, famine, and Indian attacks led to the deaths of most (only 60 of 500 survived)
Crazed for food, some settlers were reduced to cannibalism

9. Capt John Smith saved Jamestown by Many myths
(1) making friends with the Powhatan
(2)“He who will not work, will not eat”
Many myths

11. Powhatan Village

12. John Smith’s drawing of Chief Powhatan

13. John Rolfe Tobacco seed Save Jamestown (gave it a cash crop)
Married Pocahontas

14. John Gadsby Chapman, The Baptism of Pocahontas (1840)
1616 Engraving

15. Tobacco
Cash crop
Jamestown survives, and colonists start moving out of the fort to establish farms