Today’s Schedule• Turn in Early Explorers WS

• Warm-up

• QUIZ – 1.1, 1.4 & 2.1

• PPT: Jamestown

• Review Extra Credit Project

• HW- Read 2.3

• Warm-up: “One of the main sources of conflict between Natives and Europeans was the idea of owning land. Why would the Europeans have been so interested in ownership?”

Early Settlements

• First attempts in NC were unsuccessful

– Low supplies, poor relations with Natives

• The Lost Colony

– Established in 1587 on Roanoke Island, NC

– Shipped returned in 1590 with supplies

– Colony had vanished

– Only clue- CROATOAN carved on a post• Name of a friendly tribe further south

– Killed? Moved in with Natives?

Lessons from Lost Colony

• Learned Natives liked copper

• This would prove critical for Jamestown Settlement– When ran out of food, could trade copper for food

Reasons for English Settlements in Americas

• Searching for riches

– Gave them a base to attack Spanish

• Desire for a Northwest passage to the orient

– Americas would provide refueling stops

• New markets to buy English goods

• Place to spread people out

Formation of Virginia Company

• Formed by a group of investors – Sponsored expeditions to Americas– Want profits and new land