1. In The Beginning…  Native Americans  Europeans  Jamestown  Joint-Stock Companies

2. Native Americans  First people showed up in America about 22,000 years ago  Adena & Hopewell in Ohio River Valley  Mississippian in Tennessee  Anasazi & Hohokam in Southwest  Spread to many tribes by the 1400s

3. Europeans  Leif Erikson  997  Christopher Columbus  1492  Began to establish Spanish trade routes  Began to decimate the N.A. population  Brought slavery to the New World

4. Jamestown  First permanent English settlement in the New World  Set up in Virginia  Part of a joint-stock company

5. Joint-Stock Company  New explorations were not funded by the state  Funded by investors  Investors would yield the profit of any money made by the colony  Had to obtain a charter from the controlling government  Gave some of the profit to the gov’t

6. Jamestown cont.  April 1607  150 colonists created Jamestown  Spent more time looking for gold than looking for food  Only 35 of original 150 survived the winter  1609 – 300 new settlers arrived  Local N.A. tribes became concerned over the # of people moving in

7. Jamestown cont.  N.A. began killing colonists’ livestock and destroying farms to get colonists to leave  Only 60 of the group of 600 survived  Almost gave up when a new set of colonists arrived  New rule  More harsh  More work

8. Jamestown cont.  Began to grow tobacco  “Brown Gold”  Europeans loved tobacco  Unrest in VA between settlers and NA led to King James revoking the Virginia Company’s charter  King took control of the colony  Created a royal colony  Led to British control of the area