1. Period 1:
Please get out your workbooks,!
Period 2,3,5,7:
Please get out your workbooks and
have a seat right away!
2. Ch 2, Sec 5 – Jamestown:
The First English Colony
3. The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Roanoke was founded in
1587
The colony ___________ twice
failed
4. Settling Jamestown
Setting up Jamestown
In __________, the __________________
started Jamestown
1607
London Company
5. Early Problems
Swampy area:
Disease
Starvation:
Didn’t plant crops because they were
looking for gold
N-A warfare:
Constant battles
6. Starving Time
The English ate dogs, rats, and even:
Human corpses
By 1610, only _____ of the _______
people at Jamestown survived
50 of 600
7. Jamestown Survives
_________ married ________ and
helped bring peace to the colony
Pocahontas married John Rolfe
Settlers found growing _________
was successful and profitable
Tobacco
John Smith was the first to grow tobacco in
the colonies
8. Representative Government
Virginia Company creates stable,
Representative Government
voters elect representatives to make laws for
them
First form of Representative
Government in the colonies:
House of Burgessess
9. New Arrivals
Women:
By 1624, there were women compared
to men
Africans:
By 1644, Africans living in VA
300
1000
300
10. Life in the Middle Colonies
Wheat, Barley and Rye were known as:
Cash Crops:
Crops that are sold for money at market
These colonies were known as:
Bread Basket Colonies
Because they exported so much grain
11. Growth of Slavery and the
Slave Trade
By 1700, _____ made up the majority of the
population in GA and SC, because labor
changed from indentured servitude to slavery.
Slaves
Indentured Servant:
A person who agrees to work for someone for
a fixed amount of time (3-7 years) in return
for their transportation costs, food, housing,
and clothing
12. Growth of Slavery and the
Slave Trade
Slave:
A person who is owned by someone else
and has absolutely no freedoms
During the:
Middle Passage
_____% of Africans died
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