1. Grab a Sheet and Packet from the Front Table DO NOT WRITE ON PACKET Read the Primary Source

3. The Lost Colony

4. Things to consider when working with Primary and Secondary Sources: Consider the Source – Who is the author? Do they have bias? Consider the Support – Did the author back up his opinions with solid fact?

5. Take Out Roanoke Colony Worksheet and Finish

6. The Lost Colony

8. Rich merchants wanted to try again Formed Joint-stock Company Called it Virginia Company

10. 144 Settlers in 3 ships 40 died en route Landed near a the Chesapeake Bay and the James river and built on a peninsula Lack of good farmland, marshy and hot

14. Jamestown founded April 1607 1608 – New resupply ship arrives 38 colonists alive John Smith the leader for first 2 years

18. 1609 – 400 more settlers arrive to boost the colony Winter of 1609-1610 “The Starving Time” Spring 1610 40 alive

20. Colony taken from investors and made first Royal Colony John Rolfe organizes colonize Forces people to work Tobacco becomes cash crop

22. The House of Burgesses First form of Representative government in the Colonies July 1619

25. Slaves brought to colony in 1640’s to work the tobacco fields

26. Chapter 2 Section 2-4