By Jackson Collins

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Jamestown

• By Jackson Collins
• Charles Myers

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John Smith

• John Andrew Smith was born in 1579.
• He set sail to America December 20th, 1606 and
  spotted land in April 1607.
• Chief Powhatan almost killed him, but Pocahontas
  supposedly denied the action and became friends
  with him.
• He died sometime in June 1631
• from a gunpowder explosion
• at age 51.

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Historical Events

• Jamestown burned down two times!!
• On March 22nd, 1622 the Powhatan tribe attacked

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Pocahontas

• She was captured in 1612 by Samuel
  Argyll.
• She married John Rolfe in 1614 and had a baby
  named Thomas a year later in 1615.
• When she went to England she was given the
  English name Rebecca.
• She died in 1617 from pneumonia or tuberculosis
  at 22 years old.

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sickness

• If you were to be sick, they might take ten
  ounces of blood out of you and people would claim
  they feel better.
• If you were a pretty good doctor you would
  usually carry a lancet (looks like a pocket
  knife on the right) that was good for opening
  veins.
• The Native Americans shared their medical tools
  and medicines with them.
• Doctors werent the only one who could bleed you,
  barbers snipped veins between hair cuts.

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Childrens Life

• They had no school .(sounds fun)
• But still had to read write and add between
  feeding chickens, working in the fields, and
  churning butter at the age of three.
• They dont just work, they played between chores
  and learning too.
• Some games were rolling wooden hoops, playing
  ring toss, playing with wooden dolls, and
  playing checkers with bright colored stones and
  dark colored stones.

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Religion

• The settlers had a very strong religion. If you
  did not go to church you would have to pay a
  fine. You did not want to miss it three times or
  you would be whipped. You might think it wouldnt
  hurt very bad, but it was so bad it could make
  you lose a lot of blood.
• If you were accused of being a witch then you
  could be dunked on a dunking stool. Once more
  than one hundred people worshipped the devil.
  Fifty confessed of worshipping him, twenty-nine
  were found guilty, and nineteen were hanged.
  Later they realized they had made a big mistake.

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On the Ship

• It took months to get to the New world on the
  Mayflower which left England September 6th, 1620
  holding 102 passengers and three were expecting
  babies.
• They also left with a ship named the Speedwell,
  but it had to go back to England because it had a
  massive hole in it.
• Sometimes the sailors tied up knots to see who
  could come up with the most complicated one.

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Natives Were Here First!

• Native Americans traded for almost everything!
  The most valuable thing the Europeans wanted was
  beaver fur. The only thing to keep you warm was a
  fire and beaver fur is water proof and warm.
  There were a lot of beavers in North America.
• Many Native Americans died of diseases from the
  Europeans because their bodies werent used to
  the germs.

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Clothing

• Everyone wore a hat inside and outside. Not a lot
  of people wore underwear and buttons, only the
  wealthy families.
• The popular styles for girls were to have a
  skinny waist. For a long time their clothes were
  bought from Europe, but then they made their
  clothes out of wool, flay, and leather. Boys and
  girls dressed alike because until the age of
  seven they wore skirts.

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Yum, Food
Slide One

• Or not, when they finally got to America they
  only had about twenty days of food left. They
  also had no hunting supplies. They had no fresh
  food, but had barley left over from the voyage,
  but most of it was worms (a deadly disease) and
  they would die if they ate it.
• Gentlemen didnt want to get their hands dirty
  farming, that was the farmers work. Since no
  one knew much about farming, the crops did not do
  very well.

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Yum, Food
Slide Two

• For breakfast they usually had pudding, watery
  oatmeal, or cornbread mush. Which was usually
  washed down by hard cider or beer. Lunch was
  pottage, a thick stew of vegetables and other
  stuff that was thrown in. Since lunch was so
  good, pottage was also served for dinner.
  Sometimes even cod, bass, and eels made it to the
  table.
• Winters were so cold that if you didnt bring
  your chickens and goats inside then you would
  have frozen animals.

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Ladies and Slaves

• America did not start slavery, but we did start
  basing people by their skin color. People dropped
  nets from trees to capture African Americans.
  When they got to America they had big auctions
  for the African Americans.
• The ladies couldnt do much stuff either. The men
  were the leaders of the house.

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Weapons

• Muskets back then had about a 30 chance to hit
  your target, but if they do they leave a hole the
  size of a fist. They weighed about twenty pounds.
• A well dressed militiaman carried a slung like a
  belt that hangs diagonally on your chest. Bottles
  made of wood held gunpowder that hung on the
  slung.
• They also carried a long pole called a scouring
  stick to push the gunpowder down the gun so it
  can fire. The person holding it would need a
  length of cord to ignite the gunpowder.

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Houses

• Building a house is tricky. It takes times to
  make it stable. Storms could easily blow them
  down. Some burned down and they would sift
  through the ashes for nails. Almost anything on
  the ground was used for materials to build the
  houses. They mostly were made of wood.
• They had fire places, but was drafty so it let in
  more cold air than heated it. Since they did not
  have all the supplies we have today it took a
  long time to build.

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Fun Facts

• How to make old fashion corn bread
• Take three cups of water and stir in one cup of
  coarse cornmeal grits. Simmer until all the water
  is absorbed. When it cools, turn the mixture onto
  a floured work surface and shape it into two
  round flat cakes. Baked at 375 for 45 minutes.
• You can also try and put different
  toppings on it and add some spices.

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Movie slide
Slide One
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Ghost Stories
Slide One

• Not long ago, but before interstate highways ran
  around towns and cities, a young man left
  Greensboro late one night to drive to his old
  home in Lexington.  At that time, just east of
  Jamestown, the old road dipped through a tunnel
  under the train tracks. 
• The young man knew the road well, but it was a
  thick foggy night in early summer and he drove
  cautiously, especially when he neared the
  Jamestown spot.  He slowed down on the curve
  leading to the tunnel and was halfway through it
  when his eyes almost popped out of his head.  
  Standing on the roadside just beyond the
  underpass was an indistinct white figure with arm
  raised in a gesture of distress.  The young man
  quickly slammed on his brakes and came to a stop
  beside the figure.

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Ghost Stories
Slide Two

• It was a girl, young, beautiful, resplendent in a
  long white evening dress.  Her troubled eyes were
  glaring straight toward him.  Obviously she was
  in need.  He jumped from the car and ran around
  to where she stood motionless.   "Can I help
  you?"
• "yes."  Her voice was low, stranger.  I want to
  go home.  I live in High Point."
• He opened the door, and she got in.  As they
  drove off, he said, "I'm glad I came by.  I
  didn't expect to find anyone like you on the road
  so late at night."
• "I was at a dance."  She spoke in a monotone.  
  "My date and I had a quarrel.  It was very bad. 
  I made him drop me back there."
• He tried to continue the conversation, but she
  would say nothing more until they were into High
  Point.  "Turn at the next left," she said.   "I
  live three doors on the right."  He parked before
  a darkened house, got out of the car and went
  around to open the door for her.  There was no
  one there!  He looked into the back seat.  No
  one!  He thought she might have rushed up the
  sidewalk and out of sight.

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Ghost Stories
Slide Three

• Confused and undecided about what to do next, he
  thought it only reasonable to find out if she had
  entered the house.  He went up the steps and
  knocked on the door.  No one came.  He knocked
  again.  There was no sound anywhere.  After a
  third knock, through the side panes a dim light
  appeared from the pitch-black hallway.  Finally
  the door was opened by a white-haired woman in a
  night robe.
• "I brought a girl to this house," he explained,
  "but now I can't find her.  Have you seen her?  I
  picked her up out on the highway."
• "Where?"
• "At the Jamestown underpass.  She told me she had
  been to a dance and was on her way home."

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Ghost Stories
Slide Four

• Yes, I know," said the woman wearily.  "that was
  my daughter.  She was killed in a wreck at that
  tunnel five years ago tonight.  And every year
  since, on this very night, she signals a young
  man like you to pick her up.   She is still
  trying to get home."
• The young man turned from the doorway,
  speechless.  The dim light in the house went
  out.  He drove on to Lexington, but never has he
  forgotten, nor will he ever forget, the beautiful
  hitchhiker and how she vanished into the night.

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Movie Slide
Slide Two