Jamestown

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Jamestown
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20 Years after Roanoke

• Rich merchants wanted to try again
• Formed Joint-stock Company
• Called it Virginia Company

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Back to the New World!

• 144 Settlers in 3 ships
• 40 died en route
• Landed near a the Chesapeake Bay and the James
  river and built on a peninsula
• Lack of good farmland, marshy and hot

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Jamestown
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Building Timeline

• Jamestown founded April 1607
• 1608 New resupply ship arrives 38 colonists
  alive
• John Smith the leader for first 2 years

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Building

• 1609 400 more settlers arrive to boost the
  colony
• Winter of 1609-1610 The Starving Time
• Spring 1610 40 alive

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Things get better

• Colony taken from investors and made first Royal
  Colony
• Tobacco becomes a huge cash crop

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First Democracy in Action!

• The House of Burgesses
• First form of Representative government in the
  Colonies
• July 1619

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The Beginning of the Peculiar Institution

• Slaves brought to colony in 1640s to work the
  tobacco fields