The Journey of Jamestown: Challenges and Triumphs
Jamestown, the first successful English colony, faced numerous hurdles in its inception. Despite initial struggles with disease, harsh climates, and mismanagement, the settlers persevered. Through the formation of Joint Stock Companies, acquisition of a charter, and the leadership of individuals like John Smith, Jamestown overcame adversity and emerged as a permanent English settlement, setting the stage for future growth and success.
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Jump Start 1. Pass up your slavery concept poem. Make sure your name is on it. 2. For the Jamestown background Essay, complete the following steps: A. Put your NAME on it B. Circle the title C. Number the paragraphs (#1, #2, etc.) D. Put a box around the bolded words E. Highlight the first sentence of each paragraph
Pre-AP Instructions 1. Rate how well you know the vocabulary words. 2. Survey title, pictures, etc., and predict 2 things you will learn. 3. Write a question based on the title. 4. Read, then define the vocab words and answer the question. 5. Check your answers with your seat partner. 6. Write a 5-sentence summary.
Jump Start You are the leader of a dangerous new expedition. You will be traveling on a long journey to a potentially threatening land and will have to overcome many obstacles, such as food and water shortages, lack of housing and disease. Work with your seat partner to develop a list of 10-15 people whose skills and characteristics would be required in your new colony. You will have 5 minutes to complete this task.
Jamestown The First Successful English Colony
Learning Goals/ Key Questions 1. What were the goals of the Jamestown settlers? 2. Why did they struggle so much at first? 3. Why were they eventually successful?
Jamestown Begins After early English colonies failed, individual people stopped funding them Joint Stock Companies formed A business in which investors combine their money in order to make a profit Once a Joint Stock Company got a charter, they could establish a colony A written contract from a government that gave the companies permission to create a colony
Jamestown- 1607 First permanent English settlement Began with problems 1. Bad location = swampy 2. Disease = malaria carrying mosquitoes 3. Colonists spent more time mining for gold than building shelter or planting crops Climate Summer = hot and humid Winter = bitter cold
Jamestown- 1608 Only 38 of the original 100 survived the first year John Smith took over in January Made physical improvements Built a protective wall around the colony Got the colonists working He that will not work shall not eat. Improved relations with the Powhatan Got them to trade food with the settlers Smith injured and had to leave in 1609 That same year about 500 more settlers arrived due to Jamestown s success
Jamestown- 1609-1610 Growing tensions with the Powhatans Indians stopped trading food Increased attacks on the settlers and the colonists were afraid to leave the fort Starving Time Colonists ate rats, mice, snakes Only 60 survived the second winter The next spring they were saved again Supply ships brought food, more settlers, and soldiers A new governor also arrived who imposed more discipline
Jamestown- 1611-1612 John Rolfe arrived with tobacco, a crop that made Jamestown rich tobacco became a cash crop Grown in order to be sold for money instead of personal use (food, clothes, shelter, etc.) Became widespread and popular From then on, Jamestown s economy boomed
Jamestown Booms Colony became more of a business Colonists wanted their share of the profit Virginia Co. eventually let settlers own land This caused them to work even harder on harvesting tobacco First African slaves were brought and the population more than tripled in 2 years Indentured servitude also became a way to increase the amount of workers A person sold his or her labor in exchange for passage to America; after they paid the money back they were free to own their own land
First Representative Government Representative Government- a government where voters elect people to make the laws Colonists started to get annoyed at how much control the governor had They were placed under VERY strict laws The Virginia Company decided that representatives called burgesses would meet once a year to give the colonists more representation House of Burgesses- first representative government in the American colonies
Learning Goals/ Key Questions Fasten your notes into your folder, and highlight notes that help to answer these questions. 1. What were the goals of the Jamestown settlers? 2. Why did they struggle so much at first? 3. Why were they eventually successful?
On Level: Document A 1. Read through Document A one time silently 2. Circle all words you don t know 3. Beside each paragraph, write a short (2-3 sentence) summary of paragraph s main idea 4. Answer the Document Analysis questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet 5. Do this for ALL FOUR documents
On Level: Document A Based on Document A, what was the reason for the large amount of deaths in Jamestown? Native Americans Environmental Conditions Lack of Settler Skills Write evidence from the document in the appropriate column/row on the DBQ Document Evidence Chart
Pre AP: Document E On your copy of Document E, complete the following steps: 1. Circle all of the die words 2. Code the die words: A. NA = death by Native Americans B. EC = death by environmental conditions C. SS = death by settler skills 3. Total deaths for each factor for each of the 3 time periods 4. Create a graph to illustrate the data from all 3 time periods (see example of chalk board) 5. Analyze and rank order the 3 causes of death 6. Answer the following: What surprises you about the data?
Pre AP: Document E The correct data from our DBQ work yesterday is: EC = 246 NA = 141 SS = 12 Does this data match what you initially thought would be the main cause of death in Jamestown? What surprises you about the data?
