2.2 an english settlement at jamestown main idea two early english colonies failed, but jamestown...
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2.2 An English Settlement at Jamestown
MAIN IDEA
Two early English colonies failed, but Jamestown survived- partly through individual effort and hard work.
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WHY IT MATTERS NOW
Jamestown’s survival led to more
English colonies and a lasting
English influence in the United
States.
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Roanoke and Sagadahoc
• First sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh in Virginia, 1585 and 1587.
-Settlers disappeared.
• Plymouth Company sponsored Sagadahoc (modern-day) Maine.
-Settlers went back to England.
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Joint-Stock Company
• Investors fund colony and give charters; get profits.
• In 1607, Virginia Company sends 150 people to found Jamestown.
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Disastrous Start
• Colonists seek gold, suffer from disease and hunger.
• John Smith forces colonists to farm; get help from Powhatan people.
• (1609) 600 colonists arrive; Powhatan destroy farms; “starving time”.
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“Brown Gold” and Indentured Servants
• New arrivals revive and expand colony.
• Tobacco becomes profitable; export 1.5 million lbs. by the late 1620s.
• Headright System- purchaser of passage get 50 acres- lures settlers.
• Plantation owners use indentured servants -work 4-7 years for passage.
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The First African Laborers
• Arrived 1619, treated as indentured servants.
• Late 1600s, owners begin importing costly slaves because,
-indentured population decreases.
-colony becomes wealthy.
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The English Pattern of Conquest
• English do not live or intermarry with Native Americans.
• Hostilities between Powhatan and English.
• 1614 marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe creates a temporary peace.
• Renewed fighting forces the king to make Virginia a royal colony.
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House of Burgesses (1619)
• To provide more local control.
• The company elected representatives that met once a year.
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Economic Differences Split Virginia
• Former indentured people settle frontier.
-Cannot vote.
-Pay high taxes.
• Battle natives; tension between frontier, wealthy.
• Governor refuses to give money to help frontier fight natives.
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Bacon’s Rebellion
• Nathaniel Bacon raises army to fight natives on frontier (1676).
• Governor calls Bacon’s army illegal; Bacon sets fire to Jamestown.