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Title: Jamestown


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Jamestown
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20 Years after Roanoke
  • Rich merchants wanted to try again
  • Formed Joint-stock Company
  • Called it Virginia Company

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Back to the New World!
  • 144 Settlers in 3 ships
  • 40 died en route
  • Landed near a the Chesapeake Bay and the James
    river and built on a peninsula
  • Lack of good farmland, marshy and hot

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Jamestown
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Building Timeline
  • Jamestown founded April 1607
  • 1608 New resupply ship arrives 38 colonists
    alive
  • John Smith the leader for first 2 years

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Building
  • 1609 400 more settlers arrive to boost the
    colony
  • Winter of 1609-1610 The Starving Time
  • Spring 1610 40 alive

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Things get better
  • Colony taken from investors and made first Royal
    Colony
  • Tobacco becomes a huge cash crop

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First Democracy in Action!
  • The House of Burgesses
  • First form of Representative government in the
    Colonies
  • July 1619

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The Beginning of the Peculiar Institution
  • Slaves brought to colony in 1640s to work the
    tobacco fields
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