Reasons for Colonization

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England wanted to establish a
colony in America.
A colony is

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Some European countries,
including England, were in
competition to increase their wealth
and power by expanding their
empires to America.

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England wanted to establish an
American colony to increase her
wealth and power.

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England hoped to find gold and
silver in America.

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An American settlement would furnish raw
materials that could not be grown or
obtained in England.
A raw material is
What raw materials do you see here?

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An American settlement would open new
markets for trade.

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An
An American
settlement
would open
new markets
for trade. Sewing with
needles from
England
•England needed raw materials, such as lumber and tobacco.
materials
•Virginia needed manufactured goods, such as furniture,
goods
tools, needles, and muskets.

10. SOL VS.3 dot on this map of England
Each
shows a place where a
Jamestown settler came from.
Historians have read the 400-
year-old records of Jamestown
to find where the settlers came
from.
Why did the
Jamestown
settlers come
to America?

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Jamestown was founded in 1607
as an economic venture.
What are these people doing?
Where are they? What year is it?

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Jamestown was established
(started) by the Virginia
Company of London as an
economic venture. The
Virginia Company hoped to
Coat of arms of
the Virginia make a huge profit on their
Company of
London investment.

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The Virginia Company was a group
of people who got others to invest
their money.
Seal of the
Virginia
Company

14. After
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Jamestown
settlement made
money, the
investors were
supposed to get a
profit from their
money.

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Jamestown was
the first permanent
English settlement
in America.

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Where is Jamestown located?
Jamestown

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When the settlers
chose the location in
1607, Jamestown was the peninsula
located on a narrow
peninsula bordered the James River
on three sides by the
James River.

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Today,
Jamestown
is located
on an
island in
the James
River.
This is an aerial view of
part of Jamestown fort.

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Whydid the settlers choose the site
at Jamestown?
This is one of
the very first
maps of
Virginia. Can
you find the
Chesapeake
Bay?

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The
attack by sea. The English feared a sea attack
by the Spanish.

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water along the shore was deep
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enough for ships to dock.
harbor

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English believed
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they had a good
supply of fresh
water.

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What was the importance of the charters of
the Virginia Company of London to the
Jamestown settlement?

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charters to the Virginia
Company of London.
London in the
1600s

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The charters gave
the Virginia
Company the right
to establish a
settlement in North
America.

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The first charter of the
Virginia Company of
London established
companies to begin
colonies in the New World.

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The charters extended English rights
to the colonists.
The Capitol at Williamsburg,
The Houses where the House of Burgesses
of met to make Virginia’s laws
Parliament,
where
English laws
were made

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As Jamestown grew, the system of
government evolved.

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What was this system of government called?
Houses in Jamestown looked like
English houses.

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In 1619, the
governor of Virginia
called a meeting of
the Virginia
Assembly. The
Assembly included
two citizen
representatives,
called “burgesses.”

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The
burgesses
came from
each of the
divisions of
Virginia.

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TheAssembly also included the
governor’s council and the
governor.
John Smith
was an early
governor of
Virginia.

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At that time, only adult men were
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considered citizens.

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By the 1640s, the burgesses became a
separate legislative body, called the
Virginia House of Burgesses.
Patrick Henry
speaks in the
Virginia House
of Burgesses.

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The government of
the Virginia colony
was based on the
English model of a
representative
government.
This is the church in
Jamestown where the
House of Burgesses
first met.

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was modeled after the
English Parliament.

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The House of Burgesses was the
first elected legislative body in
America, giving settlers the This is an
opportunity to control their own old
engraving
government. showing
colonial
Virginia
men
voting.

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Today it is called
the General
Assembly and is
the oldest
An 1800s drawing of the
General Assembly building
in Richmond
legislative body in
the western
hemisphere.

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The House of Burgesses became
the Virginia General Assembly,
which continues to this day.
the state capitol building in Richmond, where the Virginia General Assembly meets to make our laws

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Jamestown became a more
diverse colony by 1620.

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What was the impact of the
arrival of women on the
Jamestown settlement?

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In 1620, the Virginia
Company of London
sent a ship with 90
young women to
Jamestown. A man
who wanted to marry
one of these women,
had to pay 120
pounds of tobacco to
the ship’s captain for
her trip to
Jamestown.

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The arrival of women
in 1620 made it
possible for the
settlers to establish
families and a more
permanent
settlement at
Jamestown. 1600s drawings of children
at play

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Whatwas the impact of the
arrival of Africans on the
Jamestown settlement?
African Americans
re-enact slaves listening
to a slave preacher on a
plantation.

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Jamestown against
their will. It is
believed that they
arrived as baptized
Christians and
therefore were
labeled indentured
servants for a
period of 5 to 7
years.

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saw that they would need a
cheap supply of labor for a
long time.
Tidewater plantations were expanding
because people could make so much
money from tobacco.

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The arrival of Africans made it
possible to expand the tobacco
economy.

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Howdid the Powhatan people and
the English settlers interact?
This is a 1600s
drawing of
Powhatan
Indians
smoking fish
over a fire.

49. SOL VS.3 The Powhatan
people and the
English settlers at
Jamestown
established trading
relationships and
for a while had
positive
interactions.
1600s drawing of a Powhatan village

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Captain John
Smith initiated
(started) trading
relationships
with the
Powhatans.

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The Powhatans traded food, furs, and
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leather with the English in exchange for
tools, pots, guns, and other goods.
Powhatan shelter and
cooking fire at
Jamestown

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people
contributed to the
survival of the
Modern drawing of a
Powhatan man Jamestown
settlers in several
ways.
1600s drawing of
a Powhatan Powhatan style reed and
warrior grass shelter
Cooking pot found at Jamestown

53. SOL VS.3Pocahontas,
daughter of Chief
Powhatan,
believed the
English and
American Indians
(First Americans)
could live in
harmony.
different portraits of Pocahontas

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Pocahontas
began a
friendship with
the colonists
that helped
them survive.
Powhatan Indian
building a dugout canoe

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introduced new
crops to the
English, including
corn and tobacco.

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relationship
between the
Jamestown
settlers and
the Powhatans
change?
Powhatan shelter at Jamestown

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blacksmith at work
in Jamestown
The Powhatan
people
realized the
English
settlement
would continue
to grow.

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The
Powhatans
saw the
colonists as
invaders
that would
take over armour from the 1600s
their land.
cannon at Jamestown fort

59. SOL VS.3 So we see that from
William and Mary College in the 1600s
1607,
Jamestown, the first
permanent English
settlement in
America,
changed forever how Virginia looked
and worked.

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brought with
them English
laws and
customs, which
were influenced
by their
relationship with
the Powhatans.

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began the terrible
institution of slavery in
Virginia, which lasted
a long time, because
of its dependence on a
tobacco economy.

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But Virginia grew into a culture very
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different from that of England,
because of the influence of Africans
and the Powhatan.

63. How
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influence of the English, the Africans,
and the Powhatan?
Let us always be grateful
for the lives of those who
went before us.