U3 L1 - Jamestown

• King James I

  • Grants charter to Virginia Company in 1606 to "settle & civilize" the Americas

  • Allowed

    • pay off debts

    • to check the expansion of Spain

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Virginia Company

• Joint Stock Company

• Shareholders

• Jamestown was profit

  motivated

• Advertised for Indentured Servants​

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What and Why

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• ​December 1606, 105 settlers and entrepreneurs sail

• Arrive in Virginia April 1607

• Edward Maria Wingfield elected president and selects settlement site​

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The Voyage

• Hidden from Spanish

• ​Swamps and Rivers provide protection from local Tribal nations

• Good deep water natural harbor

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Why Jamestown Island?

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• 14,000 Powhatan indians lived in area

• Chief Powhatan's daughter was....

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​Pocahontas

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The Natives

1. communal land ownership

2. Hygiene - the Powhatans believed in cleanliness and bathed daily; Europeans rarely bathed (largely because out of ignorance)

3. Eastern Woodland Indians tended to be Deist in nature

   1. Great Spirit or Spirits

   2. Nature manifests the presence of gods​

Problems with the English

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Most settlers weren't accustomed to work

Didn't plan for winter

Wasted time looking for gold​

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Disease - infected river

Famine - no food

War - local tribes attacked settlement​

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• Experienced explorer and soldier

• takes leadership of colony

• Saved by Pocahontas...maybe..​

John Smith Saves the Day

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