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Jamestown

Jamestown. Religious reasons to emigrate . Puritans – people who wanted to purify the Catholic Church Supreme authority of the Bible Ministers to be elected King James I saw this as a challenge to the Church and made many Puritans ready to leave England. Economic reasons to emigrate.

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Jamestown

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  1. Jamestown

  2. Religious reasons to emigrate • Puritans – people who wanted to purify the Catholic Church • Supreme authority of the Bible • Ministers to be elected • King James I saw this as a challenge to the Church and made many Puritans ready to leave England.

  3. Economic reasons to emigrate • England was producing more wool than needed and prices fell. • Lots of unemployment and no job opportunities

  4. Joint-stock companies • pool money for many investors for large projects (ie – settle ‘new world’)

  5. Several unsuccessful attempts to settle • Walter Raleigh settled Roanoke • Harsh winter • Disappeared – no bodies • “CRO” carved on a post

  6. King James sent the Virginia Company to colonize the Americas (1606/7) Landed in Virginia and named it Jamestown

  7. Jamestown was a PROBLEM! • Too close to the sea – made it swampy • Mosquitoes spread malaria • No one knew how to grow crops or raise livestock • 53/200 were alive after one year

  8. Cultures combine • John Smith – Became leader of Jamestown • Chief Powhatan – leader of the local Native America tribe • WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENS?

  9. Powhatan agreed to trade with John Smith, the only thing that kept Jamestown alive in the beginning.

  10. The starving time • There was not enough food for all settlers, but Smith and de la War had headed back to England.

  11. Settlers began stealing food from the Native Americans and were attacked. • Settlers began eating dogs, rats, snakes, toadstools, and horsehides. • Some ate the corpses of buried settlers.

  12. 60 settlers remained, but they started creating smaller towns in Virginia, spreading away from Jamestown.

  13. England was not happy with how things were going and sent a replacement – Lord de la War, who brought 400 new settlers

  14. Lord de la War took more settlers to Jamestown and put them under harsh laws.

  15. BROWN GOLD • To bring money in and save the colony, the settlers began growing and selling TOBACCO. • John Rolfe was responsible for the success. • Increased Population • Headright System • Indentured Servitude

  16. House of burgesses • First representative gov’t • Legislation • Taxation • In Parliament???

  17. Virginia became a royal colony – ran by a king-appointed governor 1624

  18. Relations deteriorate Colonial-Indian Relations • King Phillip’s War (1675-1678) • Sassamon • New England • ‘the spark’ • Powhatan’s Revolt Economic Tension in Colonies • Headright -> Indentured • Taxes • Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) • Western colonists vs. Doeg Tribe • Bacon vs. Berkley

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