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JAMESTOWN

JAMESTOWN. There was ONE major reason the English wanted to go to JAMESTOWN…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfGSPNcCFFk&feature=channel_video_title. GOLD. JAMES TOWN. An English company named the Virginia Company was issued a charter by King James to go find gold in the New World.

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JAMESTOWN

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  1. JAMESTOWN There was ONE major reason the English wanted to go to JAMESTOWN….

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfGSPNcCFFk&feature=channel_video_titlehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfGSPNcCFFk&feature=channel_video_title GOLD

  3. JAMESTOWN An English company named the Virginia Company was issued a charter by King James to go find gold in the New World

  4. JAMESTOWN In 1607 Jamestown became the 1st permanent English settlement in America

  5. PROBLEMS--Swampy--Mosquitoes--Didn’t build Shelter--Harsh Winters

  6. Over 100 men came over…in less than 1 year only 38 survived

  7. JOHN SMITH to the rescue”If you don’t work..You don’t eat”

  8. 800 more English settlers show up… “Starving Time”

  9. Use a primary source:“These miserable and poor creatures were [kept alive] for the most part by roots, herbs, acorns, walnuts, berries, and fish, even the skins of horses. So great was our famine, that when the Indian was killed, and buried, the poor dug him up and [ate] him, and others boiled and stewed with roots and herbs: One amongst us killed his wife, powered her, and ate part of her before it was known, for which he was executed.”- Captain John Smith, recorded in The GenerallHistorie of Virginia, published in 1624From: Mastering the Grade 8 Social Studies TEKS, pg 49

  10. “These miserable and poor creatures were [kept alive] for the most part by roots, herbs, acorns, walnuts, berries, and fish, even the skins of horses. So great was our famine, that when the Indian was killed, and buried, the poor dug him up and [ate] him, and others boiled and stewed with roots and herbs: One amongst us killed his wife, powered her, and ate part of her before it was known, for which he was executed.” – John Smith Use evidence from the primary source to discuss… • What hardships did the first settlers at Jamestown face? • How did some of the Jamestown colonists survive during the “Starving Time”?

  11. Of the 800 who came… only 60 survived

  12. WE NEED A HERO

  13. JOHN ROLFE

  14. John Rolfe developed a high-grade of Tobacco that thrived in America

  15. The VA Co. offered people 50 free acres if for ever man, woman, and child who would afford to come

  16. Indentured Servants

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