Transcript England Colonizes Virginia

England Colonizes Virginia
Jamestown Settlement
Getting Started
• 1497/ 1498: Cabot’s voyage to establish
England’s claim to new territory
• 1604: King James I prepares to colonize
North America
• 1606: King James I issues charter for
creating a colony
• Virginia Company is created
• 1607: 3 small ships sailed from England
with VA’s first settlers
The Susan Constant transported
men and supplies
Settlers arrive at site near the James River,
Jamestown is created. (England’s first permanent
settlement.)
Initially, Jamestown settlers faced hardships.
The settlement buildings were
made of material from the area.
Today we are uncovering the
original buildings and artifacts.
Captain John Smith
Eventually, the colony benefited from
growing tobacco
Tobacco plants
Tobacco leaves dried in barns
A hogs head; this barrel would be full
of many hands of tobacco.
A hand of tobacco
1618: VA Company introduces the head-right
system to increase immigration. Many people
moving to VA were indentured servants.
• Each head of
household was
entitled to a set # of
acres of land. This
was designed to
increase immigration.
Geographic/environmental problems??
High Mortality Rates
The “Starving Time”:
1607: 104 colonists
By spring, 1608: 38 survived
1609: 300 more immigrants
By spring, 1610: 60 survived
1610 – 1624: 10,000 immigrants
1624 population: 1,200
Adult life expectancy: 40 years
Death of children before age 5: 80%
English Migration: 1610-1660
The Jamestown Pitfalls and
Problems
1606-1607  40 people died on the
voyage to the New World.
1609  another ship from England lost
its leaders and supplies in a shipwreck
off Bermuda.
Settlers died by the dozens!
Drought led to shortage of local foods
The Natives in the area did help the
settlement after John Smith intervened.
England and Jamestown Timeline
• Using the dates on
this sheet, create an
illustrated timeline
showing the
progression of
English Colonization
of Jamestown
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The timeline must:
Have 8 points in time
3 illustrations
Neatness counts
Answer the question:
What stands out
about your timeline?
Hypothesize to the
cause of the
‘anomaly’?
• Looking at the notes from this power point
what do you think caused all the problems
in Jamestown? What problems were there
in Jamestown?(Be specific with your
details.)