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Social Studies learning target:
• I will view, listen to, and discuss the PPT about Early Colonies
• I will review, edit, and amend my notes as needed
John White sailed back to England for supplies. When he returned to Roanoke, the entire Colony had disappeared.
•to serve as a market for English exports
•source of raw materials
•to increase trade
•to build up its gold supply
MERCANTILSIM
Economic system used by European nations to make money
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Colonies provide the raw materials to the mother country in Europe.
(The colonies then buy the finished products from the mother country in Europe.)
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
•a. English soldier, statesman, and adventurer
•b. Sponsored ($$) the 1st English colony in America, called Roanoke
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INVESTORS
put money in the joint stock company and share ownership of the colony.
They shared profits as well as losses.
Example of CHARTER
King James I gave the Virginia Company of London a charter to start a colony at Jamestown.
JAMESTOWN
Established in 1607
Founded by Virginia Company of London
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Ships sailed into Chesapeake Bay and then up the James River
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Thinking Slide
The 1st Jamestown colonists were wealthy Englishmen… not farmers, not carpenters, not craftsmen.
What problems could this cause?
First settlers searched for gold instead of working to get food and build shelter.
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Many of the original Jamestown settlers died in first years.
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Captain JOHN SMITH
•sailor, explorer
•took control of Jamestown and made people WORK, which saved the colony.
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John Smith declared :
“He that will not work, shall not eat.”
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JOHN ROLFE
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Rolfe improved the relations with the Indians and found a way for Jamestown to make money
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IMPORTANT BECAUSE
TOBACCO
Soil is perfect for growing tobacco and soon plants are everywhere
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Why?
John Rolfe developed a high-grade tobacco that became popular in England.
This crop begins to make the colony a profit. http://www.oldhalifax.com/county/images/tobacco2.jpg
Oh, No. Not another……… Thinking Slide
Problem: The Virginia Company of London wants to attract more settlers.
2 Solutions????
HEADRIGHT x2, x3, x4, …
If you also pay for someone who cannot afford the trip, you would get another 50 acres of land.
This iscalled….
14. INDENTURED SERVANTS
-poorer Englishmen who could not afford the trip to America
-agreed to work about 6 years without pay
(to pay off the free passage)
Oh, No. Not another……… Thinking Slide
Was their any kind of local government in the early colonies? Did it represent the people?
HOUSE OF BURGESSES
First representative assembly in the colonies
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ANGRY BECAUSE
•High taxes
•Rich plantation owners had so much land
•Governor would not go to war with the Indians
OUTCOMES
•Nathanial Bacon took control of House of B______ and burned Jamestown to the ground.
Bacon and his followers about to burn down Jamestown
•House of B_____ passes laws to stop a royal governor from having too much power
Bacon confronts Governor Wm. Berkeley at Jamestown HOB 1676.