1. Ch 2, Sec 5 – Jamestown:
The First English Colony

2. The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Roanoke was founded in
 1587
The colony ___________ twice
 failed

3. Settling Jamestown
Setting up Jamestown
 In __________, the __________________
started Jamestown
 1607
 London Company

4. Early Problems
Swampy area:
 Disease
Starvation:
 Didn’t plant crops because they were
looking for gold
N-A warfare:
 Constant battles

5. Starving Time
The English ate dogs, rats, and even:
 Human corpses
By 1610, only _____ of the _______
people at Jamestown survived
 50 of 600

6. Jamestown Survives
_________ married ________ and
helped bring peace to the colony
 Pocahontas married John Rolfe
Settlers found growing _________
was successful and profitable
 Tobacco
 John Smith was the first to grow tobacco in
the colonies

7. Representative Government
Virginia Company creates stable,
 Representative Government
 voters elect representatives to make laws for
them
First form of Representative
Government in the colonies:
 House of Burgessess

8. New Arrivals
Women:
300
 By 1624, there were women compared
to 1000
men
Africans:
 By 1644, Africans living in VA
300

9. Period 1:
Please get out your
workbooks!
Period 2, 4, 5, 6:
Please get your workbooks
out and have a seat right
away!
Would you like to contribute
to our group gift?

10. Life in the New England Colonies
Town Meetings – settlers discussed and
voted on many issues, NE government
Geography:
 Very cold winters, warm summers, rocky
soil, not good for farming, lots of trees
Economy:
 Sawmills
 Shipbuilding
 Whaling
 Trade

11. Life in the Middle Colonies
Wheat, Barley and Rye were known as:
 Cash Crops:
Crops that are sold for money at market
These colonies were known as:
 Bread Basket Colonies
 Because they exported so much grain

12. Growth of Slavery and the
Slave Trade
By 1700, _____ made up the majority of the
population in GA and SC, because labor
changed from indentured servitude to slavery.
 Slaves
Indentured Servant:
 A person who agrees to work for someone for
a fixed amount of time (3-7 years) in return
for their transportation costs, food, housing,
and clothing

13. Growth of Slavery and the
Slave Trade
Slave:
 A person who is owned by someone else
and has absolutely no freedoms
During the:
 Middle Passage
_____% of Africans died
 10

14. The Middle Passage

15. Growth of Slavery and the
Slave Trade
The economy of the Southern colonies
depends on:
 Slavery