Northwest Passage?

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Northwest Passage?

• John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)
• Newfoundland 1497
• Never returned from second voyage
• Henry Hudson
• Hudson River (New York City)

2
Need for English Settlements

• To Search for a Northwest Passage. (to China)
• English Merchants wanted to trade with natives.
  (What did they want?________________.

3
Roanoke Island

• 2nd Attempt (1587)
• Settlement established
• 1590 Supply ship lands on Roanoke, settlers had
  disappeared
• Croatoan

• Sir Walter Raleigh (privateer)
• Island on Outer Banks of North Carolina coast
• 1st Attempt (1585)
• Starvation forced return home

4
Jamestown

• Charter Colony
• Certificate of permission from the king
• Joint-stock company
• Investors funded the colony
• Virginia Company
• Colony on James River (1607)
• Named for King James I

5
Early Problems

• Settlers not used to working
• Spent time looking for gold
• Settlement on a swamp
• Poor leadership
• Except for John Smith
• Starving Time
• (Oct. 1609-March 1610)
• Saved by natives
• Struggles with Natives
• Paradise?
• 1623 5,500 settlers come
• 4,000 die within a year

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Government in Jamestown

• Who makes the decisions in your house? Do you
  have a say? Is there a king/queen in your house?
  Is it you?
• Define a representative government.
• Decide if you live in a representative govt? Why
  or why not?

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Government in Jamestown

• James I revoked charter in 1624
• Became a Royal Colony
• King appointed a governor to live there
• House of Burgesses
• Legislature of representatives of the community
  (DO you have a say in decisions at home?)
• First representative government in the New World!

8
Saved by Tobacco

• First exported to Europe in 1613 (John Rolfe)
• Highly Profitable
• Needed more labor
• Indentured servants
• 1619, _at_20 Africans brought over

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Bacons Rebellion (1676)

• Freed indentured servants moved west
• Promised land
• Clashed with natives
• Nathanial Bacon organized an army to push natives
  out
• Bacon told by governor Berkeley to stop
• Bacon attacked Jamestown
• Bacons death ended rebellion
• Gave encouragement to bring in African slaves