Plan for today 10/12
1. Get out review sheets from
Friday
2. Finish Review sheets & check
answers
3. Start Jamestown Notes
JAMESTOWN
America’s First Permanent English Settlement
Strand #2
Standard #2
English Colonies
I can identify regions of the 13
colonies
JAMESTOWN
America’s First Permanent English Settlement
1607
Virginia Company
Gold
James River
Problems
withthe
London
Company
Lack of
supplies
Planned on
Indian help but
underestimated
Powhattan
Poor work
Mostly gentry
who wanted
to dig for gold
habits
Set up in a
River carried
dysentery,
typhoid fever,
and malaria
swamp
Weakleadership
Argued over
who should
rule Virginia
Only 38 of
the original
104 colonists
survived the
first year
John Smith
Mercenary brought to
America in chains
Took over the colony
and tried saving it
“The Starving Time”
1609-1610
Lack of clean drinking water, disease,
drought, and troubles with Natives caused
problems for Jamestown
Infamous for cannibalism
“[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
Photo:DonHurlbert/Smithsonian,ArtbyStudioEIS
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”)
John Rolfe
“that vile weed.”
-King James
Economic
diversification
Martial
Law
House of
Burgesses
The
Headright
system

Jamestown ppt