1. Early Colonies
Have Mixed Success

2. Thanks to successful campaigns against the Spanish in Europe, England was able to begin competing with Spain for economic superiority in North America.

3. HOW DID THE ENGLISH GET A FOOTHOLD IN NORTH AMERICA?
ENGLAND NOW CAN GRAB A PIECE OF THE AMERICAN PIE!
IN THE 1500’s THE SPANISH LAID CLAIM TO MUCH OF NORTH AMERICA
IN 1588 THE ENGLISH FOOL THE SPANISH ARMADA IN EUROPE
(OUCH!)
SO…
THEN

4. WHY DID THE ENGLISH WANT TO COLONIZE NORTH AMERICA?
Find a passage through the Americas to the Indies
Increase trade
REASONS FOR ENGLAND TO COLONIZE NORTH AMERICA
Find gold
Import raw materials
Establish the Protestant faith in America

5. Escape religious persecution
Find economic
opportunities
Seek gold
REASONS AN
ENGLISHMAN MIGHT
GO TO AMERICA
Escape religious persecution

6. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I who gave Sir Walter Raleigh permission to set up a colony at Roanoke.

7. In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh set up a colony at Roanoke
In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh set up a colony at Roanoke. The colony failed. Urged by the artist John White, Raleigh tried again in 1587, this time with 100 settlers including members of White’s family, who disappeared without a trace. In 1607, the Plymouth Company sponsored a colony in Maine. It also failed.

8. Portrait of Walter Raleigh, near age 32, by Nicholas Hilliard, c.1585

9. A map of the Roanoke area, by John White

10. A sketch by John White of Indians at Roanoke.

11. In 1607, the Virginia Company of London financed a colony at Jamestown, Virginia. In 1608, John Smith took control of the Jamestown colony. 800 more colonists arrived in 1609, and by 1621 Jamestown had grown to more than 2,000.

12. James I of England from the period 1603–1613, authorized the James Town settlement after whom it is named.

13.                                                     
Arrival at Jamestown

15. The Inside of the First Church in Jamestown, where the first law in America was made

16. The Native American warriors took Captain Smith prisoner.
                                                                                          
The Native American warriors took Captain Smith prisoner.

17. QUICK
CHECK
FOR UNDERSTANDING

18. In 1607, the Virginia Company of London financed a colony at______, Virginia. In 1608, ______ took control of that colony.
1) Jonestown, Jim Jones
2) Johnstown, John Smith
3) Roanoke, John White
4) Jamestown, John Smith

19. Which of the following was not a reason why England set up colonies in North America:
1) Increase trade
2) Find gold
3) Establish the Catholic faith in America
4) Find a passage through the Americas to the Indies

20. Thanks to successful campaigns against the Spanish in Europe, ______ was able to begin competing with Spain for economic superiority in North America.
1) Mexico
2) England
3) The Netherlands.
4) Portugal

21. Many English colonists voyaged to America for all the following reasons except:
1) Establish a mission system.
2) Seek gold.
3) Escape religious persecution.
4) Find economic opportunities.

22. In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh set up a colony at______. The colony failed
In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh set up a colony at______. The colony failed. Urged by the artist______, Raleigh tried again in 1587.
1) Connecticut, Michelangelo
2) Jamestown, King James
3) Roanoke, John White
4) Plymouth, John Rolfe

23. Disney's Real vs Pocahontas Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a girl of 11; Smith was a man of 28.
Pocahontas was a naked child when she visited John Smith in Jamestown. For Winter warmth, she would wear a mantle; one of hers was covered with feathers. When she turned 12, she started wearing a leather dress with or without one shoulder strap. Dresses were often decorated with pictures of animals, birds, or tortoises. She probably did have tattoos.
Pocahontas and John Smith were both young adults when they met.
Pocahontas had an amazing figure, and wore a leather minidress with one shoulder strap. She had a tattoo.

24. John Smith was short, had a full beard, and wore puffy pants (like everyone else). He did wear the type of armor shown.
The colonists sailed in three ships: the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery.
John Smith was tall and clean shaven. He wore tight pants and some armor.
The colonists sailed on the Susan Constant

25. In 1612, John Rolfe developed a high-grade tobacco that the colonists learned to grow. It became very popular in England.

27. Settlers were offered 50 acres of land if they paid for their own passage to the colonies. Those who could not afford passage to America, borrowed money and became indentured servants, who worked for many years in order to pay back the loans.

29. The strict rule of the colonist’s Governor forced his replacement by an elected assembly called the House of Burgesses - the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown..

30. As the number of colonists increased, their relationship with the Powhatan natives grew worse. In an effort to improve relations between the English and the Powhatan, John Rolfe married Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas in 1614.

31. colony at Roanoke colony at Jamestown
John White
Sir Walter
Raleigh
colony at
Roanoke
Pocahontas
John Smith
colony at
Jamestown
John Rolfe

32. A 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe
A 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe. The original English caption (not visible here) reads "Matoaks als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and baptized in the Christian faith, and wife to the wor.th Mr. Joh. Rolff." The inscription under the portrait reads "Aetatis suae 21 A. 1616", Latin for "at the age of 21 in the year 1616".

33. Chief Powhatan in a longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)

34. Fed up of the ever expanding colonists, the Powhatan natives killed hundreds of Jamestown’s residents in 1622.

35. Indian massacre of 1622, depicted in a 1628 woodcut

36. Nathaniel Bacon led a group of landless settlers against Governor William Berkeley, and burned Jamestown to the ground in 1676, in a revolt that came to be known as Bacon’s rebellion.

37. Portrait of Nathaniel Bacon.

38. QUICK
CHECK
FOR UNDERSTANDING

39. In 1612, ______ developed a high-grade ______ that the colonists learned to grow.
1) John Rolfe, corn
2) John Rolfe, tobacco
3) John Smith, tobacco
4) John Ratcliffe, corn

40. Fed up of the ever expanding colonists, ______ killed hundreds of Jamestown’s residents in 1622.
1) the Powhatan natives
2) Nathaniel Bacon
3) the Spanish
4) Queen Elisabeth I

41. The strict rule of the colonist’s Governor forced his replacement by an elected assembly called the ______ .
1) Court of Burgesses
2) Court of Charles I
3) House of Commons
4) House of Burgesses

42. Those who could not afford passage to America, borrowed money and became______, who worked for many years in order to pay back the loans.
1) Puritans
2) indentured servants
3) wealthy land owners
4) Free Masons

43. Nathaniel Bacon led a group of landless settlers against Governor William Berkeley, and burned Jamestown to the ground in 1676, in a revolt that came to be known as______ .
3) the charge of the light brigade
4) the boxer rebellion
1) the great migration
2) Bacon’s rebellion

44. John Rolfe married Chief Powhatan’s daughter, ______ in 1614.
1) Nakatani
2) Pocatani
3) Pocahatan
4) Pocahontas