1. Objective: To examine the formation of the settlements of Roanoke Island and Jamestown. Roanoke Island – “The Lost Colony” Roanoke Island was the first British settlement in North America.

2. Sir Walter Raleigh funded and authorized the expeditions to Roanoke Island. Roanoke Island was first settled by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584. The settlement failed because of food shortages and troubles with the Native Americans and Spain.

3. 1585 map of Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout by John White In 1587, John White returned and tried to restart the British settlement of Roanoke Island. However, due to a lack of supplies, White was forced to return to England.

4. English ships and the Spanish Armada, August 1588. Because of fighting between the British and the Spanish Armada, White was unable to return to the colony until 1590.

5. White returned in 1590 to find that everyone had vanished. Mystery at Roanoke (1:56)

6. John White was an accomplished artist. Click here to view more of his artwork. Click here Watercolors by John White (left) Village of the Secotan in North Carolina. (right) Secotan Indian warrior

7. The Settlement of Jamestown The settlement of Jamestown was started in Virginia by the Virginia Company in 1607. The official seal of the Virginia Company of London.

8. Captain John Smith landing in Jamestown

9. Captain John Smith saved Jamestown by: - bargaining for food with the Powhatan Indians. - calling for a “no work, no food” rule. - 2/3’s of the colonists died of disease and hunger. Death at Jamestown (1:07) Captain John Smith

10. Artist depiction of Pocahontas saving the life of Captain John Smith.

11. The colonist John Rolfe married the Powhatan princess Pocahontas. The marriage helped to bring peace between the colonists and the Powhatans.

12. John Gadsby Chapman depicts Pocahontas being baptized Rebecca in Jamestown, Virginia. (1613 or 1614) Her brother Nantequaus turns away from the ceremony. The baptism took place before her marriage to Englishman John Rolfe, who stands behind her. Their union is said to be the first recorded marriage between a European and a Native American.

13. Oil painting of Pocahontas, after she left for England with her husband, John Rolfe.

14. Jamestown finally became profitable after John Rolfe began growing tobacco taken from Spanish tobacco seeds. Tobacco leaves drying in a shed in Cuba Tobacco farmer, Chatham, Virginia America the Story of Us: Life in Jamestown America the Story of Us: Life in Jamestown (2:06) Spanish tobacco, grown in Spain’s southern colonies, was sweeter and more popular than the tobacco normally grown in Virginia.