Jamestown

1. Plan for today 10/12
1. Get out review sheets from
Friday
2. Finish Review sheets & check
answers
3. Start Jamestown Notes

3. JAMESTOWN
America’s First Permanent English Settlement

4. Strand #2
Standard #2
English Colonies
I can identify regions of the 13
colonies

5. JAMESTOWN
America’s First Permanent English Settlement

6. 1607
Virginia Company

7. Gold

8. James River

10. Problems
withthe
London
Company

11. Lack of
supplies
Planned on
Indian help but
underestimated
Powhattan

12. Poor work
Mostly gentry
who wanted
to dig for gold
habits

13. Set up in a
River carried
dysentery,
typhoid fever,
and malaria
swamp

14. Weakleadership
Argued over
who should
rule Virginia

15. Only 38 of
the original
104 colonists
survived the
first year

16. John Smith
Mercenary brought to
America in chains
Took over the colony
and tried saving it

17. “The Starving Time”
1609-1610
Lack of clean drinking water, disease,
drought, and troubles with Natives caused
problems for Jamestown
Infamous for cannibalism

18. “[He fell upon his wife while she
was asleep and] fed upon her till
he had clean devoured all parts
saving her head.”
-From a diary at Jamestown

19. Photo:DonHurlbert/Smithsonian,ArtbyStudioEIS

20. Lt. Governor
Thomas Gates
Found a few survivors and tried taking
them back to England
Turned back by Baron De la Warr
Imposed martial law (“Police State”)

22. John Rolfe

23. “that vile weed.”
-King James

24. Economic
diversification

25. Martial
Law

26. House of
Burgesses

27. The
Headright
system