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The First American Settlers

The First American Settlers. Why the expedition was made. Search for new land and wealth English wanted to colonize Virginia To seek a water route to the Orient. Not the first in the land. Roanoke people 1584 exploration Lived with natives for a few years

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The First American Settlers

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  1. The First American Settlers

  2. Why the expedition was made • Search for new land and wealth • English wanted to colonize Virginia • To seek a water route to the Orient

  3. Not the first in the land • Roanoke people • 1584 exploration • Lived with natives for a few years • 1590- John White returned to colony and found that everyone was gone • Many different ideas as to what happened, but no documents are found to tell of what truly happened

  4. The Arrival to Jamestown • Arrived in 1607 • Jamestown, Virginia was the first successful settlement • 101 people survived the trip overseas and landed in America • Hoped for many riches in the new land

  5. The Arrival continued • Led by John Smith • Built a triangular fort, which found to be bad land

  6. Meeting the Natives • Paotin Indians were hospitable to the strangers • Introduced them to many new foods and resources • Pocahontas was a real person • daughter of chief • Said to have saved John Smith’s life

  7. What was found • No gold, although was the hope • Natives way of life • Hunting and gathering

  8. Conflicts of the New Land • Too many people, not enough resources • More landed shortly after • Only grew tobacco • Although a great export, took too much land, not enough for food. • Bad labor • Focused too much on exports, not enough on wellness for the people • Bad land • Soil unable to be farmed • Misquitos, diseases • Many colonists not immune to the new world illnesses, caused many deaths

  9. Conflicts cont. • Pocahontas kidnapped by Englishmen • Natives began to dislike colonists • Cut them off from their resources • Wanted them to leave • Without help of the natives, colonists had nothing. They soon were forced to eat resourceful animals, pets, and supposedly corpses • By 1610 only about 60 people survived of the 505 who all came overseas.

  10. Pocahontas and John Smith • Pocahontas • Daughter of chief in the native tribe • Story of her saving John Smiths life • Kidnapped by colonists, soon converted by them and married Englishman, John Rolfe • Name changed to Rebekah • John Smith • One of the main leaders of the expedition • Saved by Pocahontas from being killed by her people

  11. Works cited • http://www.historyisfun.org/jamestown-settlement.htm • http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=25 • http://www.apva.org/history/ • http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=26 • http://www.nationalcenter.org/SettlementofJamestown.html • http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jamestown-founded

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