2nd Period Story

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Jamestown Virginia Englands first permanent colony

in America. Planned as a trading settlement by

Virginia Company of London. The purpose was to

make money for the 650 people who invested in it

and paid 12 pounds and ten shillings per stock in the

Virginia company

We want to make

money!!


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When they reach Virginia, they

had a plan to profit from all the

valuable resources.

we can profit from

all


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King James granted the Virginia Company a

charter which set boundaries along the 41st

and 34st parallels. Since no one knew the

distance of the New World, their borders went

on forever.

VIRGINIA

King James says

we get all this

land.forever


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Wow, that was quick!

All right, lets motor, baby!

105 men and boys of the Virginia Company set

sail on three ships: Susan Constant, Discovery,and Godspeed. They landed April 26, 1607!

Jamestown


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The men settled 30 miles up the James River on a marshy peninsula. They would be governed by a council of seven men,designated among them by the Virginia Company.


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Sir George Percy wrote there

wee landed and discovered

faire meadows and goodly

tall trees: with such fresh

water running through thewoods as I was almost

ravished at the first sight of

thereoff

Who are they ?

Lets call thisJames town


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Virginia became a seedling of liberties for in the Virginia company's charter King James I granted

Virginians with the same liberties that they would have been born into in England.

Virginia England


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The Colonists built a triangular fort at Jamestown

They Dug

For Gold

They Tried ToFind A Path To

China

But They Didnt PlantEnough Crops For

Food

And During Winter, Many

Were Killed By Disease


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In 1608, Captain John Smith took charge and saved the colony by imposing a work ethic since half

the settlers were gentlemen who werent used to working.

You gentlemen need to

work harder to help this

colony prosper. He that will

not work, shall not eat!


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When the men would work, there hands would become

painful and they would swear out loud. Smith didnt like this,

so to discipline them he would pour cold water down there

sleeves.

Awww.myhands S@#$!

Hey, no

swearing!!!


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Meanwhile, Powhatan, chief of the

Powhatan Confederacy, discussed the

English at Werowocomocotook, his

capital village fourteen miles from

Jamestown.

Maybe we

should wait

and see if we

can trade with

them.

I think we

should

attack them.


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Pocahontas persuades tribe to befriend Englishmen when she saved

Captain John Smith, and began the Peace of Pocahontas.

Friend.


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Tobacco is Horrible!

King James

Says Tobacco is

Bad for you. Itis HAZARDOUS

to your health!

But look at howwell the sales

are doing!In 1612, even

though no one in

Jamestown liked to

use tobacco, it

became theirversion ofgold.

The Virginia

Company gained

profit from this, and

everyone back in

England loved it.


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Lets get out of here, Pocahontas!

In 1614, John Rolfe married Pocahontas. She became a Christian that day. She

changed her named Lady Rebecca and was taken to King James by the Virginia

Company. When Pocahontas died, in 1617, the Peace of Pocahontas ended.


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The House of Burgesses m

1619 for the first time in J

Virginia. Five generations l

the Virginia assembly lead

grown accustomed to poliwould eventually lead col

independence from Engla


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The Headright System allowedprivate ownership of land (as opposed

to company ownership) Each pre-1616 settler received 100 acres of free

land. Each thereafter received 50 acres, plus another 50 acres for every

person brought to England.

Amazing! Im

going to bring

over my son, so I

can have another

50 acres!


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NINETY ADVENTUROUS WOMEN ARIVED IN 1619, SENT

BY THE VIRGINA COMPANY AS WIVES FOR THE

JAMESTOWN SETTLERS. EACH GROOM PAID 120

POUNDS OF TOBACCO FOR HIS BRIDES PASSAGE


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In 1619, the same time the Virginiacompany extended freedom to the

colony, groups were brought to

virginia.20 Africans were sold to

settlers. They were freed many years

later, but in the 1600s, slavery came

back

Yay!

Slaves!


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In 1622, tragedy struck Virginia! On good Friday indians suprise attacked colonists

wiping out of the colony But 1000 of the 9000 indiands survived


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In 1624- King James I, who didnt like the representative government, used the massacre and the Virginia Companys

financial problems as an excuse to revoke the Companys Charter and make Virginia a royal colony. He dismissed the

house of Burgesses, but the members met anyway. King James I, son in 1639 King Charles I reinstated the House of

Burgesses. Virginians prospered under royal rule, but they guarded their right to legislative self government.


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Sir William Berkeley served as one of the first royally

appointed governors of Virginia (1642). Although an

able ruler, he had no use for freedoms.

I thank God there are no free schools, nor

printingfor learning has broughtdisobedience, and Hersey, and sects into the

world, and printing has divulged them, and

libels against the best Government. God

keeps us from both.


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In the 1670s frontier settlers in western Virginia

rebelled against the autocratic rule of Governor

Berkeley. He levied high taxes, while denying

frontiersmen a voice in the government and

protected against invading Indians


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Time to stir up a

rebellion! I am

tired ofGovernor

Berkeley! In 1676 Nathaniel

Bacon stirred a

rebellion, and threw

Governor Berkeley out.

Jamestown was

burned, but King

Charles soon restored

order.

BurnJamestown,

Burn!!

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