2. 2.2 An English Settlement at Jamestown
Objective:
Learn the reasons for English Settlement at Jamestown
Understand how Jamestown survived and the sources of conflict with Native Americans

3. COMPARE/CONTRAST SPAIN FRENCH(Dutch) ENGLAND Govt. supports colony
Gold & God
Plantations
Conquer
(Conquistadors/
Mestizos)
Nominal Govt. support
Trade
Outposts/Forts
Native Alliances
Collaborative
Private Corporations
Settlements
Colonies
Punitive Conflict
No mixing/
Separation / Destruction

4. Europeans in North America
New France (Quebec 1608)
First European to North America
Vikings (c. 1001)
First English settlement
Roanoke 1587 (Walter Raleigh, Croatoan)
Oldest English Colony: Jamestown (1607)
Oldest European Colony
St. Augustine 1565 (Spain: de Aviles)

7. Jamestown: Why here? ++

8. Jamestown Disastrous start John Smith
Disease, starvation, and thoughts of gold (Sp. Model) Virginia Co. Investors wanted quick return
January 1608 only 38 of 150 survived
John Smith
Took control of the settlement
Work or get out
Help of the Powhatan (Pocahontas story)
Turned colony around
October 1609 gunpowder “accident”=Starving time (winter 1609/1610)
June 1610: 600 more Colonists sent to Jamestown (John Rolfe)
Reaction of the Powhatan (less helpful/raids: WHY?)

9. Fate of Jamestown After starving time, colonists wanted to leave
They were convinced to stay and work
Forced, beaten and hung
Grew into a profitable company, why?
Tobacco, AKA “Brown Gold” (John Rolfe)
“Headright” system / Indentured servants
Result : Class Conflict
African laborers
Arrived in 1619
Initially treated as Indentured servants
Benefits: Price and resistance to disease less indentured servants available
By late 1600’s less indentured servants available

10. List some of the problems encountered by the English colonists at Roanoke and Jamestown:

11. Compare and Contrast Headright System, Indentured Servants, and African Slaves PAGES Headright Servants Slaves

12. Map: European Settlements and Indians, 1754
Indian tribes
1750

13. Map: Early Chesapeake Settlement
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14. Q: How was the English pattern of conquest different from that of the Spanish?
A: Both used conquest, but the English did not intermarry with the Native Americans, did not attempt to convert them, and were not successful in making them into slaves.

15. Anglo-Powhatan Wars in VA
1614 Peace- Pocahontas & John Rolfe marry
1622, 347 settlers killed, incl. John Rolfe
1624 Made a royal colony by King James I
More soldiers and settlers
1644, Powhatan defeated
1685, Powhatan extinct
Disease, Disorganization, Disposability

16. Nathaniel Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon came to Virginia as a gentleman in the 1670s, but his resentment of the economic and political domination of the colony by a small group of planters transformed him into a backwoods rebel. In 1676, Bacon led an army of discontented farmers, servants, and slaves against the powerful coastal planters--and almost won.
Result: The reasoning was that Bacon’s Rebellion occurred as a result of class tension between poor and elite whites. These ruling southerners believed that the presence of a racially-based group of laborers who lacked freedom (slaves) would defuse class tension by instilling even the poorest whites with a sense of racial superiority.
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17. COMPARE/CONTRAST SPAIN FRENCH(Dutch) ENGLAND Govt. supports colony
Gold & God
Plantations
Conquer
(Conquistadors/
Mestizos)
Nominal Govt. support
Trade
Outposts/Forts
Native Alliances
Collaborative
Private Corporations
Settlements
Colonies
Punitive Conflict
No mixing/
separation.destruction

19. COMPARE/CONTRAST SPAIN ENGLAND Govt. supports colony Gold & God
Plantations
Conquer
(Conquistadors/
Mestizos)
Private Corporations
Settlements
Colonies
Punitive Conflict
No mixing/
separation.destruction

20. Virtual Jamestown game

21. Jamestown video