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Early English Colonies Part I Roanoke and Jamestown Mr. Heath Blue Creek Elementary School 2011

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Page 1: Early English Colonies Part I Roanoke and Jamestown Mr. Heath Blue Creek Elementary School 2011

Early English Colonies Part I

Roanoke and Jamestown Mr. Heath

Blue Creek Elementary School

2011

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Jamestown

Roanoke Island

North America

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The Lost Colony • Roanoke Island, North

Carolina in 1587• Governor John White• White returns to England

for supplies• Returns 3 Years Later• The Colony had

Disappeared• Still a Mystery— “The

Lost Colony”

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The Virginia Company of London • Joint-Stock Company

• Investors paid money for shares in the company

• Investors would share in profits of company

• Given a charter to start a colony in North America

• Charter—written document that grants certain rights to a colony, state or group of people

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Jamestown

• Founded in 1607• Located on the

shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia

• Started by the Virginia Company of London

• Named after King James I of England

•40 of the 144 men died on the journey from England to the New World

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Problems of the Jamestown

Colony • Spent time

looking for gold instead of planting crops

• Did not make friends with the Native Americans

• Settled in an area infested with mosquitoes that carried deadly diseases

• “The Starving Time”—Harsh first winter—many died

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John Smith

• Became governor in 1608

• Improved Discipline

• Made Rule: “He who does not work does not eat.”

• Made men plant crops

• Improved relations with Indians

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Tobacco• John Rolfe learns to grow

tobacco from Indians• Becomes a successful

export and cash crop • Cash Crop—a crop sold to

make a profit• Export—goods sent from

one country and sold to another country for a profit.

• Tobacco was popular in England.

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Indentured Servants

• Planters (farmers) needed workers to grow and harvest the tobacco

• Indentured Servants agreed to work from 7 to 14 years for their passage to America

• Received food, clothing and shelter• Sometimes land & money to start a new

life

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Enslaved Africans • Began arriving in

Jamestown in 1619

• First Africans were

indentured servants

• Freed Africans started their own farms

• First African Slaves in 1640

• By 1660, slaves from African were being imported to Virginia

• Slavery spread to other colonies

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