Jump Start1. Pass up your slavery concept poem.

Make sure your name is on it.

2. For the Jamestown background Essay, complete the following steps:

A. Put your NAME on it

B. Circle the title

C. Number the paragraphs (#1, #2, etc.)

D. Put a box around the bolded words

E. Highlight the first sentence of each paragraph

Pre-AP Instructions1. Rate how well you know the

vocabulary words.

2. Survey title, pictures, etc., and predict 2 things you will learn.

3. Write a question based on the title.

4. Read, then define the vocab words and answer the question.

5. Check your answers with your seat partner.

6. Write a 5-sentence summary.

Jump Start

“You are the leader of a dangerous new expedition. You will be traveling on a long journey to a potentially threatening land and will have to overcome many obstacles, such as food and water shortages, lack of housing and disease.”

Work with your seat partner to develop a list of 10-15 people whose skills and characteristics would be required in your new colony. You will have 5 minutes to complete this task.

JamestownThe First Successful

English Colony

Learning Goals/Key Questions

1. What were the goals of the Jamestown settlers?

2. Why did they struggle so much at first?

3. Why were they eventually successful?

Jamestown Begins• After early English colonies failed,

individual people stopped funding them

• Joint Stock Companies formed– A business in which investors combine

their money in order to make a profit• Once a Joint Stock Company got a

charter, they could establish a colony– A written contract from a government that

gave the companies permission to create a colony

Jamestown- 1607• First permanent English

settlement • Began with problems

1. Bad location = swampy

2. Disease = malaria carrying mosquitoes

3. Colonists spent more time mining for gold than building shelter or planting crops

• Climate– Summer = hot and humid– Winter = bitter cold

Jamestown- 1608• Only 38 of the original 100 survived

the first year• John Smith took over in January

– Made physical improvements• Built a protective wall around the colony

– Got the colonists working• “He that will not work shall not eat.”

– Improved relations with the Powhatan• Got them to trade food with the settlers

– Smith injured and had to leave in 1609– That same year about 500 more settlers

arrived due to Jamestown’s success

• Growing tensions with the Powhatans– Indians stopped trading food– Increased attacks on the settlers and the

colonists were afraid to leave the fort• Starving Time

– Colonists ate rats, mice, snakes– Only 60 survived the second winter– The next spring they were saved again

• Supply ships brought food, more settlers, and soldiers

• A new governor also arrived who imposed more discipline

Jamestown- 1609-1610

• John Rolfe arrived with tobacco, a crop that made Jamestown rich

• tobacco became a cash crop– Grown in order to be

sold for money instead of personal use (food, clothes, shelter, etc.)

• Became widespread and popular

• From then on, Jamestown’s economy boomed

Jamestown- 1611-1612

Jamestown Booms• Colony became more of a business

– Colonists wanted their share of the profit

• Virginia Co. eventually let settlers own land– This caused them to work even harder on harvesting

tobacco

• First African slaves were brought and the population more than tripled in 2 years

• Indentured servitude also became a way to increase the amount of workers – A person sold his or her labor in exchange for passage

to America; after they paid the money back they were free to own their own land

First Representative Government• Representative Government- a

government where voters elect people to make the laws

• Colonists started to get annoyed at how much control the governor had

• They were placed under VERY strict laws• The Virginia Company decided that

representatives called burgesses would meet once a year to give the colonists more representation

• House of Burgesses- first representative government in the American colonies

Learning Goals/Key Questions

Fasten your notes into your folder, and highlight notes that help to answer these questions.1. What were the goals of the Jamestown

settlers?

2. Why did they struggle so much at first?

3. Why were they eventually successful?

On Level: Document A1. Read through Document A one time

silently

2. Circle all words you don’t know

3. Beside each paragraph, write a short (2-3 sentence) summary of paragraph’s main idea

4. Answer the Document Analysis questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet

5. Do this for ALL FOUR documents

On Level: Document A• Based on Document A, what was

the reason for the large amount of deaths in Jamestown?– Native Americans– Environmental Conditions– Lack of Settler Skills

• Write evidence from the document in the appropriate column/row on the DBQ Document Evidence Chart

Pre AP: Document EOn your copy of Document E, complete the following steps:

1. Circle all of the “die” words

2. Code the “die” words:A. NA = death by Native Americans

B. EC = death by environmental conditions

C. SS = death by settler skills

3. Total deaths for each factor for each of the 3 time periods

4. Create a graph to illustrate the data from all 3 time periods (see example of chalk board)

5. Analyze and rank order the 3 causes of death

6. Answer the following: What surprises you about the data?

• The correct data from our DBQ work yesterday is:– EC = 246– NA = 141– SS = 12

• Does this data match what you initially thought would be the main cause of death in Jamestown?

• What surprises you about the data?

Pre AP: Document E