August 20, 2013Agenda:1. Review Roanoke and Colonization2. Jamestown Facts3. Cannibalism at Jamestown

EQ- Describe the hardships and successes faced by the colonists at Jamestown.

Table of Contents:11. Jamestown Notes12. Jamestown 5W’s13. Cannibalism at Jamestown Response

HW- Complete your Cannibalism at Jamestown Response.

Do Now- On the post-it note I have given you, tell me about Pocahontas and the history of Jamestown.

John Smith- leader of the groupVirginia Colony- the company that got the charter, the money, and recruited the people to goKing James- the King of England at the time150 passengers came in the first group-Landed in 1607

Jamestown, VirginiaFirst permanent English colony- started in 1607

Picked location because there were no Indians

there Swampy land, contaminated water, lots of

disease Colonists were lazy and refused to work Winter 1607- only 38 remained alive Smith says he will kill anyone who refuses to

work and gets the Powhatan Indians to agree to give food to the settlers

He catches on fire in an accident and has to return to England for treatment

Rough Start

1609- 600 new settlers arrive Powhatan Indians get freaked out by the

increase in people and start killing animals and destroying farms

By winter of 1610- massive starvation, eating *anything* to stay alive (shoe leather, rats, other people)

This is called “The Starving Time” Only 60 of them survived.

More people

New group came, including a man named John

Rolfe Began to whip and hang colonists who didn’t

work John Rolfe has tobacco seeds and starts

growing Realize there is a huge market for “brown

gold” in England

The turn-around

Making money from tobacco, now they need more

people to farm Headright system- Virginia company will give you 50

acres of land if you pay for your passage to Virginia (or someone else’s)

These large plots of land are called plantations Indentured servants- people who came over and

agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for passage, food, and shelter (usually 4-7 years)

1619- first group of Africans brought by the Dutch (19), treated as indentured servants- eventually free and owned land

Need workers!

English looked down on Native Americans as

savages; wouldn’t intermarry Hated the Powhatan for what they did during The

Starving Time Retaliated by setting Powhatan villages on fire, killing

people and kidnapping women and children One of these kidnapped children was Pocahontas-

Chief Powhatan’s daughter. She married John Rolfe in 1614

1622 Powhatans attacked and killed lots of colonists England has to send protection- makes Virginia a

royal colony under the King’s control

Bad times with the Natives

By 1644- 10,000 Virginians Poor people didn’t own land, couldn’t vote, had no

legal rights and lived on the outskirts where they still had to fight with Native Americans

Gov. Berkeley (now in charge of colony) taxed the poor and gave benefits to the wealthy

Things got nasty between frontier Virginians and Native Americans

Gov. Berkeley would not send protection or help Nathaniel Bacon gets mad!

Poor people unite!

Planter who detested Native Americans (“wolves” who preyed upon our “harmless and innocent lambs”)

Mad at Gov. Berkeley for not fighting them off 1676- Bacon gathers an army himself to fight the Nas Gov. Berkeley declares the army illegal and the army

turns to march on Jamestown to confront him Bacon got sick and died King Charles recalls Gov. Berkeley People start paying attention to the poor people and

the power they had

Bacon’s Rebellion