1. The English Come to Stay

2. Reasons England Created Colonies
1. Englishmen needed jobs
2. Compete with Spain’s great wealth

3. Sir Walter Raleigh
• Never went to America
himself
• Organized expeditions to
Roanoke, North Carolina

4. John White
• Placed in charge of Raleigh’s second attempt
at colonization
• He took three years to get back with supplies
• The colony had disappeared
• Called the “lost colony”

5. Jamestown
• First English permanent
colony
• 100 men and boys
• Named after King James I

6. Problems in Jamestown
• Men thought they were too good to work
• There was shortage of food
• Drinking water was impure

7. John Smith
• Any man that did not
work could not eat!
• 2 Thessalonians 3:10
• He was injured and had
to go back to England

8. John Rolfe and Pocahontas

10. “Starving Time”
• The winter of 1609-1610
• Terrible famine hit Jamestown
• Only 60 survived of the 600 settlers

11. • indentured servants: agreed to be servants
to gain passage to the colonies
• Slaves were introduced soon after

12. House of Burgesses
• The first representative assembly in America