Roanoke Island, Jamestown

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Roanoke Island, Jamestown Plymouth Rock
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Roanoke Island (Lost Colony)

• Sir Walter Raleigh asked Queen Elizabeth of
  England if he could lead a group of people to
  begin a colony in the North America.
• Queen Elizabeth gave Raleigh a charter (a
  document that allowed colonists to live on land
  owned by their country.)

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Roanoke Island (1st Time)

• In 1585, the first English people tried to begin
  a colony.
• This became the 1st English colony in the USA.
• It failed due to hunger and bad relations with
  the Native Americans.
• All but 15 men went back to England on a ship.

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Roanoke Island (2nd Time)

• In 1587, Raleigh sent colonists a second time.
• The 15 men that had stayed behind the 1st time
  had been killed by then.
• John White was the colonys governor.
• This time, the colonist brought their wives and
  children.
• John Whites granddaughter, Virginia Dare was
  born 1 month after they arrived in the USA on
  August 18 the first English baby born in the USA.
  

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s/Dare_Virginia.html
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Connection Question Roanoke was settled the
2nd time in 1587 in another attempt to establish
a permanent English Settlement. Thinking back to
the movie from Yesterday, what was going on in
Europe in 1587? What happened the following year
(1588)?

• English Reformation A great deal of religious
  fighting.
• 1588 was the Spanish Armada. England had its
  hands full fighting the Spanish, and couldnt
  sail many ships across the sea due to the battles
  at home.

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Spanish Armada

• In 1588, King Philip II decided to attack
  England.
• The English defeated the all powerful Spanish
  Armada because they had quicker ships and a
  violent storm helped destroy the Spanish ships.

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es/armada/page2.htm
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The Lost Colony

• John White returned in August 1590 to find no
  colonists on Roanoke Island.
• On one of the trees was written CROATOAN.
• Croatoan was the name of an island nearby as well
  as the name of the Native Americans living in the
  area.

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Jamestown Colony

• In 1606, King James I gave permission to the
  Virginia Company of London to try a colony.
• Christopher Newport led the three ships, Susan
  Constant, Godspeed and Discovery to Jamestown.

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ogy20Class/powerpoint/jamestown.ppt
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Jamestown

• On May 14, 1607, the settlers began building the
  first English permanent settlement on the James
  River in Virginia.
• Jamestown was named after the King James I and
  Virginia was named after the Virgin Queen of
  England.

• Click Here to see a Virtual tour of Jamestown

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1301/Hist1301-2anarr.ppt
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Reasons for Jamestown Difficulties

• Not educated in how to plant food in Virginia.
• Little knowledge of Virginia landscape.
• Not enough people in the Jamestown settlement
  especially hard working people.
• Native American Battles

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The House of Burgesses

• After his arrival in Jamestown in 1619, Governor
  George Yeardley immediately gave notice that the
  Virginia colony would establish a legislative
  assembly. This assembly, the House of Burgesses,
  first met on July 30, 1619.

Virginia document
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The House of Burgesses

• The House of Burgesses, the first legislative
  assembly in the American colonies, held its first
  meeting in the choir at Jamestown Church in the
  summer of 1619.
• Its first order of business setting a minimum
  price for the sale of tobacco.

Jamestown Church
Burgesses were elected representatives. Only
white men who owned a specific amount of property
were eligible to vote for Burgesses.
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VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES

• The English kings who ruled the 13 original
  colonies reserved the right to decide the fate of
  their colonies as well, but not alone. The
  colonists drew upon their claims to traditional
  English rights and insisted on raising their own
  representative assemblies. Such was the case with
  the VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES, the first
  popularly elected legislature in the New World.

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Pilgrims vs. Puritans.

• What is the difference between the two? Is there
  a difference?
• http//www.history.com/shows/how-the-states-got-th
  eir-shapes/videos/puritans-vs-pilgrims
• Pilgrims were looking to start a Church separate
  from the Church of England, whereas Puritans
  wanted to purify the Church of England. These
  were all Protestant in theology, so very
  similarand they got along well for the most part.

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John Smith

• John Smith was the leader of the colony.
• Pocahontas legend? Eh, not so much.
• Smith was sent to colony to take lead of colony
  original colonists were not farmers and were not
  interested in that type of hard work

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John Smith (continued)

• Created new rules in colony Work not, eat
  not.
• Raided Native tribes for food when hunting became
  difficult
• Returned to England after being injured in 1609

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.html
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Starving Times (1609-1610)

• John Smith returned to England after being
  injured.
• Due to several raids against the Natives, they
  were less than happy about the English.
• Powhatan cut off support.
• More colonists came from England, and learned to
  grow a cash crop that could make the colony
  money
• TOBACCO

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John Rolfe

• John Rolfe in 1614 found a way to harvest Spanish
  tobacco (sweeter and more nicotine than others)
• This quickly became the cash crop of Virginia.
• He also married Pocahontas in 1614 and thus
  created peace with the Powhatan Native Americans
  for 8 years.

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5/FamAmer/Pocahontas.html