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Colonial America
Chapter 3 Section 1 - 10/18
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History
8th Grade
10/26/2011

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ENGLAND AND SPAIN

  • War between ^^^ ended 1604
  • Spain lost control of seas
  • England started first American colonies
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LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE

  • John White - leader and mapmaker
  • Virginia Dare - first American born English child
  • White set out to get supplies, took 3 years
  • Returned to deserted colony, only clue : CROATOAN carved in gate
  • Did they go to Croatoan Island?
  • Or did they starve or get killed by Native Americans?
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COLONIES IN AMERICA

  • Virginia Company received charter to start colonies
  • Sent 144 settlers in 3 ships to a)search for gold; b)establish fish and fur trade
  • 40 died during voyage
  • Named Jamestown after King James
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COLONY OF JAMESTOWN (SOUTH)

  • Built on peninsula for defense
  • land was swampy, filled with diseased mosquitoes and poor farmland
  • Colonists not used to hard labor and searched for gold instead of farming 
  • by spring, 38 were alive
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JAMESTOWN ECONOMY

  • Cpt. John Smith forced colonists to work, explore, and get corn
  • John Rolfe - grew tobacco from W. Indies; married Pocahontas; saved Jamestown
  • HEADRIGHT - landgrant giving 50 acres to ALL family members over 15
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JAMESTOWN GOVERNMENT

  • All settlers - MEN( @ 1st)
  • needed gov.; created HOUSE OF BURGESSES
  • 2 Representatives from each town went to create laws
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NEW ARRIVALS IN JAMESTOWN

  • 1619- 90 new women
  • 20 servants(Africans) worked for time periods
  • WILLIAM TUCKER - 1st American born African
  • Jamestown suffered attack from Native Americans
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