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Jamestown

The first colony was made in Jamestown and was planned as a trading settlement by the Virginia Company of London. Jamestown. Let’s venture our £££, so we can make £££ from gold and furs, and stuff like that. That’s why it’s called adventuring. . Maybe now I’ll have some friends. .

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Jamestown

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  1. The first colony was made in Jamestown and was planned as a trading settlement by the Virginia Company of London. Jamestown

  2. Let’s venture our £££, so we can make £££ from gold and furs, and stuff like that. That’s why it’s called adventuring. Maybe now I’ll have some friends. Adventurers The investors invested (or ventured) their money, so that they could make money from lumber, gold, and furs, to fill their lonely, oh so lonely lives. Poor suckers.

  3. The boundaries were the 34th and 41st parallels from sea to sea, but they had no idea how big this was! Virginia's indefinite western boarder would cause problems later on! VIRGINIA! King James I granted a charter for the Virginia Company. Virginia’s boundaries were more than half the United States!

  4. Woo-hoo! 1607- The Virginia company’s recruits (105 men) sailed to Virginia on three ships – Susan Constant, Discovery, and the Godspeed.

  5. The men settled 30 miles up the James River on a marshy peninsula. Then they would be governed by a council designated by the Virginia Company.

  6. We will name this Jamestown for King James! Who are they?

  7. Virginia became a seedling of liberty, for in the Virginia Company’s charter King James I granted Virginians “the same liberties…as if they had been abiding and born within this our realm of England.” “According to King James I, I am English even though I am born in Virginia.”

  8. The Virginians built a fort, dug for gold, and searched For a passage to China. However, they failed to plant Enough crops for food; by winter, famine and disease Killed all but 38 men.

  9. If you don’t work, you don’t eat! So ha! GRRRR!!!! Fine we will go do some work! But we have never worked before! 1608-Captin John Smith, 27-year-old swashbuckling solider-of-fortune, took charge and saved the colony by imposing a WORK ETHIC. (Half the settlers were gentlemen, unaccustomed to work.)

  10. Rough work made the workers angry…. Every time ye curse I splash ye! A bucket per curse! muahahaha Ouch!! #%$^%^ Water!?!?!

  11. Yeah! Kill the Englishmen! 14 miles away What a great new world! No, lets wait to see if they’ll trade. Meanwhile, Powhatan, Supreme Chieftain of the Powhatan Confederacy (about 9,000 Indians), discussed the Englishmen at Werowocomocotook, his village fourteen miles from Jamestown.

  12. Have all this food and we can all be friends. Thanks for saving us little girl!!!! Yea, lets hope our friendship is forever! So, Pocahontas saved the Englishmen letting the have food and creating a long friendship called the Peace of Pocahontas!

  13. 1612-Tobacco became Virginia’s “gold” when John Rolfe discovered a new way to cure it. Smoking became the rage in England and the Virginia Company prospered by exporting this cash crop. (Virginia)

  14. 1614 Pocahontas married tobacco farmer John Rolfe. She became a Christian and took the name Lady Rebecca and they went back to London. However, Pocahontas dies there of disease in 1617 – this ends the PEACE of POCAHONTAS. We’re going to London!!:)

  15. The House of Burgesses started meeting in July 1619 in Jamestown. About 157 years later, in 1776, the leaders from the Virginia assembly grew accustomed to political freedom, and would lead the other colonies to independence from England. Lets create freedom!!!!!

  16. I have 100 acres plus 100 more because for every person you broght from England you get 50 acres more. Everyone gets 100 acres of land… that’s what I have I moved and got 50 acres free. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have lots of land… I brought over lots of people and was rewarded. You were aloud to have private ownership of land. Each pre-1616 settler got 100 acres of land free. For every person you brought in from England you got 50 acres of land and that person gets 50 acres of land too.

  17. Ninety adventurous women arrived in 1619, they were the wives for the Jamestown settlers. Each groom paid 120 pounds of tobacco for his bride`s passage.

  18. 20 Africans were sold to Jamestown settlers from a Dutch captain. They were told they would be free after several years, but they were turned into slaves.

  19. On good Friday Powhatan Indians, led by OPECHANCANOUGH, massacred 347 Virginians (1/4 of the entire colony!) in a noontime. Surprise Attack. In 1622 tragedy struck Virginia!

  20. I DO NOT like representative government! I used Virginia’s financial problems and the massacre as an EXCUSE! I wanted to REVOKE the Company’s charter and make Virginia a ROYAL COLONY! I dismissed the House of Burgesses, but they met anyway. Chill out, King James I… (1624) 1639 I reinstated the H.B. ! I am King Charles I, and my dad is King James I… Virginia prospered under a ROYAL RULE, but they still had rights to LEGISLATIVE SELF GOVERNMENT.

  21. Although an able ruler, he had no use for liberty. Sir William Berkeley served as one of the first royally appointed governors of Virginia. I thank god there are no free schools, nor printing……for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both. Liberty? That’s ridiculous! I am the first!!! Ha ha ha ha…… Or in modern day terms: Omg!!!!!! I m like way happy that like there isnt ny like free schools, or printing. Learning like makses peple like not listen..printing hs like made da world split.. And I like hope that god like prevents these from happening for evr.

  22. Governor Berkeley levied taxes, while denying frontiersmen a voice in the government and protection against invading Indians in 1670. Also in the 1670s frontier settlers in western Virginia rebelled against the rule of Governor Berkeley. HELP!! No I’m too special

  23. Oh no! im sick!...im dying… (crashes to ground) Well I guess the rebellion is over… Grrrr! HUH! 1676 – Bacon’s Rebellion Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersman in a rebellion against Gov. Berkeley. Bacon’s wins but dies of a sudden illness and the rebellion ends. However, the damage is done. Within in 20 years the capital of Virginia is moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg and Jamestown is abandoned.

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