Jamestown 1607

Essential Question:What did the Jamestown settlers learn from their

mistakes and how did they turn those mistakes into success?

Jamestown 1607• Searching for GOLD, paid for by the

Virginia Stock Company = workers and upper class gentlemen.

• Not prepared for long term.• Near a swamp w/mosquitos = malaria. • Interaction with Powhatan Indians was

tense and unstable.• Gold on the Brain, no one worked for food.

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GOLD!

1609 – The Starving Time• John Smith injured, returns to England• Still no order, people will not work for

survival of colony• Cannibalism!• Disease, food shortage, and Indian

attack wiped out most settlers down to 60.

1610-Salvation by Tobacco

John Rolfe arrives with Tobacco to

plant!

1619 Jamestown Survives – Becomes Virginia

• TOBACCO Plantations – $$$CASH CROP$$

$• The settlers decide to vote for representative leaders -

Virginia House of Burgesses (Representative Government – Self Government )

• Indentured servants, women, and Slaves arrive.