Roanoke Island & Jamestown

Roanoke Island (Lost Colony)

Sir Walter Raleigh asked
Queen Elizabeth of
England if he could lead a
group of people to begin a
colony in the North
America.
Queen Elizabeth gave
Raleigh a charter (a
document that allowed
colonists to live on land
owned by their country.)
Picture Credit:
http://www.huvard.com/becka/raleigh/welcome.html
Roanoke Island (1st Time)
In 1585, the first English
people tried to begin a
colony.
This became the 1
st

English colony in the USA.
It failed due to hunger
and bad relations with the
Native Americans.
All but 15 men went back
to England on a ship.

Roanoke Island (2nd Time)
In 1587, Raleigh sent
colonists a second time.
The 15 men that had
stayed behind the 1
st
time
had been killed by then.
John White was the
colonys governor.
This time, the colonist
brought their wives and
children.
John Whites
granddaughter, Virginia
Dare was born 1 month
after they arrived in the
USA on August 18 the first
English baby born in the
USA.
Picture Credit:
http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Dare_
Virginia.html

Connection Question: Roanoke was settled
the 2
nd
time in 1587 in another attempt to establish a
permanent English Settlement. Thinking back to the
movie from Yesterday, what was going on in Europe in
1587? What happened the following year (1588)?
- English Reformation; A great deal of religious
fighting.

- 1588 was the Spanish Armada. England had its
hands full fighting the Spanish, and couldnt sail
many ships across the sea due to the battles at home.


Spanish Armada
In 1588, King Philip II
decided to attack
England.
The English defeated
the all powerful
Spanish Armada
because they had
quicker ships and a
violent storm helped
destroy the Spanish
ships.

Picture Credit:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/adventure/games/armada/page2.htm#
The Lost Colony
John White returned
in August 1590 to find
no colonists on
Roanoke Island.
On one of the trees
was written
CROATOAN.
Croatoan was the
name of an island
nearby as well as the
name of the Native
Americans living in the
area.
Picture Credit:
http://www.outer-
banks.com/lost.cfm
Jamestown Colony
In 1606, King James I
gave permission to
the Virginia
Company of London
to try a colony.
Christopher Newport
led the three ships,
Susan Constant,
Godspeed and
Discovery to
Jamestown.
Picture Credit:
http://www.bchs.k12.va.us/Technology%20Class/powerpoint/jamestown.ppt
Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, the
settlers began building
the first English
permanent settlement
on the James River in
Virginia.
Jamestown was named
after the King James I
and Virginia was named
after the Virgin Queen
of England.
Click Here to see a Virtual tour of Jamestown
Picture Credit: www.cbc.cc.tx.us/acdem/social/hist1301/Hist1301-2anarr.ppt

Reasons for Jamestown
Difficulties
Not educated in how to plant food in
Virginia.
Little knowledge of Virginia landscape.
Not enough people in the Jamestown
settlement especially hard working
people.
Native American Battles

The House of Burgesses
After his arrival in
Jamestown in 1619,
Governor George
Yeardley immediately
gave notice that the
Virginia colony would
establish a legislative
assembly. This
assembly, the House
of Burgesses, first
met on July 30, 1619.
Virginia document
The House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses,
the first legislative
assembly in the American
colonies, held its first
meeting in the choir at
Jamestown Church in the
summer of 1619.
Its first order of business:
setting a minimum price
for the sale of tobacco.
Jamestown Church
Burgesses were elected
representatives.
Only white men who owned a
specific amount of property were
eligible to vote for Burgesses.
VIRGINIA HOUSE OF
BURGESSES
The English kings who ruled
the 13 original colonies
reserved the right to decide the
fate of their colonies as well,
but not alone. The colonists
drew upon their claims to
traditional English rights and
insisted on raising their own
representative assemblies.
Such was the case with the
VIRGINIA HOUSE OF
BURGESSES, the first
popularly elected legislature in
the New World.
Pilgrims vs. Puritans.
What is the difference between the two? Is there a difference?

http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-states-got-their-
shapes/videos/puritans-vs-pilgrims

Pilgrims were looking to start a Church separate from the
Church of England, whereas Puritans wanted to purify the
Church of England. These were all Protestant in theology, so
very similarand they got along well for the most part.
John Smith
John Smith was the
leader of the colony.
Pocahontas legend?
Eh, not so much.
Smith was sent to
colony to take lead of
colony; original
colonists were not
farmers and were not
interested in that type
of hard work

Picture Credit: http://www.apva.org/history/jsmith.html
John Smith (continued)
Created new rules in
colony: Work not, eat
not.
Raided Native tribes for
food when hunting
became difficult
Returned to England after
being injured in 1609
Picture Credit: http://www.apva.org/history/jsmith.html
Starving Times (1609-1610)
John Smith returned to England after being
injured.
Due to several raids against the Natives, they
were less than happy about the English.
Powhatan cut off support.
More colonists came from England, and learned
to grow a cash crop that could make the colony
money:
TOBACCO
John Rolfe
John Rolfe in 1614 found a
way to harvest Spanish
tobacco (sweeter and
more nicotine than
others)
This quickly became the
cash crop of Virginia.
He also married
Pocahontas in 1614 and
thus created peace with
the Powhatan Native
Americans for 8 years.
Picture Credit:
http://www.geocities.com/apembert45/FamAmer/Pocah
ontas.html