1. Jamestown: Myths and Realities Mr. Bach Accelerated United States History

2. English Colonization The Charter of the Virginia Company:The Charter of the Virginia Company: –Guaranteed to colonists the same rights as Englishmen as if they had stayed in England. –This provision was incorporated into future colonists’ documents. –Colonists felt that, even in the Americas, they had the rights of Englishmen!

3. Why did Jamestown nearly fail?

4. Goal of a Joint-Stock Company Investors would like to see a quick profit What would be the best way to realize a quick profit?

5. Chesapeake Bay

6. Jamestown Fort & Settlement Map

7. Jamestown Fort & Settlement (Computer Generated)

8. Who Were the First Colonists? Not

9. Starving Time Only 60 of 400 settlers survive winter of 1610-1611

10. So, how was Jamestown saved?

11. Captain John Smith Those who shall not work, shall not eat

12. Forging a “peace” with the Powhatan Confederacy

13. Pocahontas “Saves” John Smith

14. John Rolfe and the “Savior” The “Stinking Weed” makes Jamestown profitable. “Virginia’s gold and silver” –Rolfe, 1622

15. Jamestown Settlement Pattern

16. Powhatan Uprising of 1622

17. Jamestown: The Beginning of an American Mythology

18. Pocahontas