Warm-up: What’s the question?

2. Warm-up: What’s the question? • The answer is: Jamestown • With a partner, list as many questions with the answer “Jamestown” as you can come up with. Write them on your post-it note. • Stick your questions on the white board.

4. What were some of the mistakes Jamestown settlers made? • Chose their site poorly • Low & swampy; malaria • Looked for gold instead of growing food • Adventurers, but not laborers • Who helped Jamestown survive in 1608? • 1609-1610: “starving time” • Ate dogs, cats, rats, snakes, toadstools, horsehides, and corpses

5. What is the “Virginia Company”? • The Virginia Company: joint stock companies chartered by James I in 1606 to establish settlements on the coast of North Amerca.

6. Jamestown • Despite growing tobacco, it was still not profitable in 1616, so what did they do? • Headright System: 50-acre grants of land. Each new settler received a single headright. • House of Burgesses: 1619: Delegates from various communities met. What is the significance of the House of Burgesses? • First meeting of an elected legislature

7. Jamestown • In 1619 a Dutch ship brought in “20 and odd Negroes.” • Marked the first step toward the enslavement of Africans in America

8. http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/jamestown.swf

9. Document A: Captain John Smith, Works, 1608-1631 “The mildness of the aire, the fertilitie of the soile, and the situation of the rivers are so propitious to the nature and use of man as no place is more convenient for pleasure profit and man’s sustenance. Under that latitude or climat, here will live any beasts, as horses, goats, sheep, asses, hens, &c. as appeared by them that were carried thither… So then here is a place a nurse for souldiers, a practice for mariners, a trade for marchants, a reward for good, a trade for marchants, a reward for the good, and that which is most of all a businese (most acceptable to God) to bring such poor infidels to the true knowledge of God and his holy Gospell.”

10. Document B: Edward Whitehouse, Virginia, 1622 On the Friday morning (the fatal day) the 22nd of March, as also in the evening, as in other days before, they came unarmed into our houses, without bows or arrows, or other weapons, with deer, turkeys, fish, furs, and other provisions to sell and trade with us for glass, beads, and other trifles; yea, in some places, sat down at breakfast with out people at their tables, whom immediately with their own tools and weapons either laid down, or standing in their houses, they basely and barbarously murdered, not sparing either age or sex, man, women or child; so sudden in their cruel execution that few or none discerned the weapon or blow that brought them to destruction... Our hands, which before were tied with gentleness and fair usage, are now set at liberty by the treacherous violence of the savages...so that we, … may now by right of war, and law of nations, invade the country, and destroy them who sought to destroy us...

11. Document C: Richard Frethorne, Letter to his mother and father, 1623 “Loveing and kind father and mother… this is to let you vnderstand that I yo’ Child am in a most heavie Case by reason of the nature of the Country… is such that it Causeth much sickness, as the scurvie and the bloody flix, and divers other diseases, wchmaketh the bodie very poore, and Weake… since I came out of the ship, I never at [ate] anie thing but pease, and loblollie (that is water gruell) as for deare or venison I never saw anie since I came to this land… if you love me you will redeeme me suddenlie, good ffather doe not forget me, but have m’cie [mercy] and pittye my miserable Case.”

12. Read the prompt. What kind of essay is this? Analysis: breaking down the concept into smaller parts; examining it from different angles or Causation: Cause  Effect

13. Chapter 2 One of the biggest problems during the first years of the Jamestown settlements was The unwillingness of colonists to grow food Fights over the colony’s few white women Attacks by Indian neighbors Battles between slave-owners and non-slave-owners Lack of support from the Virginia company

14. 2. The year 1619 was important to the history of Virginia because in that year the colony • Elected its first House of Burgesses • Made its first profit • Received its first royal governor • Put down an Indian uprising • Introduced indentured servitude

15. Why did people want to leave England? Lots of different reasons… • The people of Tudor England suffered from frequent and costly European wars, from almost constant religious strife, and above all from a harsh economic transformation of the countryside. • England was converting lands from fields for crops to pastures for sheep because wool was in high demand.

16. What happened to Cahokia? • Located in Illinois just east of St. Louis

17. Early English Settlements: Plymouth • Why was Plymouth established? • Puritans did not agree with Church of England • Left for the New World in search of religious freedom. • Main economic activity: fishing

18. Plymouth settlers and Wampanoag Indians •  Fifty years later, Massachusetts residents and Wampanoag Indians would engage in a conflict known as…