objective: to examine the formation of the settlements of roanoke island and jamestown

Objective: To examine the formation of the settlements of Roanoke Island and Jamestown.

Roanoke Island – “The Lost Colony”• Roanoke Island was the first British settlement in North America.

Sir Walter Raleigh funded and authorized the expeditions to Roanoke Island.

• Roanoke Island was first settled by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.

• Raleigh named the entire region Virginia.

• However, Roanoke Island is in present day North Carolina, where the capital is named Raleigh.

• The settlement failed because of food shortages and troubles with the Native Americans and Spain.

• In 1587, John White returned and tries again to start a British settlement on Roanoke Island.

• John White returned to England later in 1587 for supplies.

View the artwork of John White.

• Because of fighting between the British and the Spanish Armada, White was unable to return to the colony until 1590.

John White drawing of Pomeiooc Village, 1585

• White returned in 1590 to find that everyone had vanished.

The Settlement of Jamestown• The settlement of Jamestown was started in Virginia by the Virginia Company in 1607.

• Captain John Smith saved Jamestown by:

- bargaining for food with the Powhatan Indians.

- calling for a “no work, no food” rule.

- 2/3’s of the colonists died of disease and hunger.

Model of Jamestown

• The colonist John Rolfe married the Powhatan princess Pocahontas.

JOHN ROLFE AND POCAHONTAS

early 1850s, J. W. Glass

Pocohantas

John Rolfe

• This marriage brought peace between the colonists and the Powhatans, and ensured economic success for Jamestown after Pocahontas introduced tobacco to John Rolfe.