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