WarmupIn your notebook, respond to this cartoon in 5 sentences.

EARLY COLONIES

EQ: What factors influenced the start and development of the early

colonies?

With exploration booming, the Spanish & French are all over the place claiming lands (Territorial dibs) and starting permanent colonies

The English arrive late on the scene in the 1570s/80s

In fact, the Spanish and French both claimed the lands known as NC today long before the English!

Italian explorer, commissioned by France

Discovers the lands now known as North Carolina in 1524First European since around 1000 AD to explore the Atlantic coast of North America around the Carolinas

Giovanni da Verrazzano

De Soto

Hernando de Soto April 1540 led an expedition across the

Savannah River Moved towards present day North Carolina Headed west & died in Mississippi River Area

• 1st European to see the interior of South Carolina

Chapter 4

English aristocrat and explorerFunded his own voyagesSupported by Queen

Elizabeth I

1584 - Landed at Roanoke Island Made connections with

local Native AmericansDecided to bring settlers

back

Sir Walter Raleigh & the Roanoke Colony

Jamestown and Roanoke colonies

Roanoke Voyages

1585 – 108 soldiers come to Roanoke to establish first colony

1586 – Colonists and Native Americans at “war,” and colony is abandoned

1587 – Second settlement attempted117 colonists come to Roanoke

Governor John White

Roanoke Colony, cont.

1590 – White returns to Roanoke, but finds the colony has disappeared

Roanoke, cont.

• 1587 – John White returns to England to get supplies

1st Permanent English Colony

After the Roanoke Colony failure, the English established their permanent colony at Jamestown in VA

Colony became wealthy due to the sale of tobacco

Jamestown

The “Jamestown” Colony

1606 Virginia- named

after the “Virgin Queen”

Began by Virginia Company (granted a charter by King)

1st Permanent English Colony

Charter

Document granted from English king, granting sovereignty

Questions: What is sovereignty? What powers are gained through a charter? Why were charters necessary?

Virginia Company: a Joint Stock Company - different stakes can be bought and owned by shareholders

By 1618, colonials are granted a House of Burgesses – 1st Representative Democracy in New World

Jamestown Timelinehttp://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html

1. 1606King James I issues a charter to the Virginia Company for land on the mid-Atlantic Coast

2. 1607• May 13: 104 male settlers arrive

at Jamestown, the first permanent England settlement in the New World

• May 26: Indian attacks• December 10: Capt. John Smith

is captured• December 29: John Smith is

saved by Pocahontas before Powhatan

Jamestown Timelinehttp://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html

3.1608Settlers at Jamestown die in great numbers (38 of 104 remain)

4. 1609• 500 more

settlers come to Virginia

• Relations with Native Americans grow tense

5. 1610September-May: The “Starving Time” reduces population to 60 (from 500-600)

Jamestown Timelinehttp://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html

6.1612John Rolfe tries a crop of tobacco to help save the Jamestown settlement

7. 1614John Rolfe marries Pocahontas

8. 1618-1623

The “Great Migration” increases Jamestown’s population from 400 to 4,500

Jamestown Timelinehttp://www.virtualjamestown.org/timeline2.html

9. 1619VA House of Burgesses meets for the first time

Consequences of Jamestown’s Success

The beginnings of NC

Outgrowth in VA leads to people migrating south to new lands… helps push for a new land grant for what becomes known as the Carolina Colony

King Charles I Colonies of Maryland,

Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts created under his rule

1628 -- Granted charters to colonize lands south of Virginia, named for himself – Carolana

The Carolana charter, known as the “Heath Patent” granted to Sir Robert Heath

Heath’s plans to settle fail, contract eventually is voided during English Civil War

King Charles II Due to lack of population,

Charles II sold Heath Patent to the “8 Lord Proprietors,” 8 wealthy lords in England

Proprietor = owner Renamed the colony

Carolina, in honor of Charles II

Promoted populating the colony through profit incentive

NOW, the Carolina Colony will be permanently settled!

Wrap-Up Questions:

What factors influenced the start and development of the early colonies?

What kinds of immigrants came over to the New World? Were they voluntary or forced?