Notes and your Binder

• First English colony in the new world• Joint stock company• Colonists unhappy AGAIN

• Remember to update your Table of Contents.

Warm up activity• WRITE THE FOLLOWING QUESTION On a sheet of notebook paper……..

What dangers might you face as a settler in a new land? List no less than 5 answers

Security needs

Severe weather

Protection from wild animals

Protection from “hostiles”Serious illness or injury

Conflict between settlers

Failure to cooperate w/others

Crop failure

1607

Jamestown

The first English settlement in the New World…

First Colony: Roanoke

• Sir Walter _______ gave money for the English first colony founded at “______,” in _______, but it had a mysterious ending.

• The founder left for England to get supplies and when he returned, the colony, _____________ and any trace of them were ________!

• No one ever found out what happened to the settlement or the people, to this day…no one knows…

Roanoke

all the peopleGONE

Virginia

Raleigh

• When the Roanoke colony disappeared, Sir Raleigh lost all his __________, his _______!

• So the English decided that many people should “___________” to help fund any more colonies…this way, if the colony is successful and makes money, each person who helped start the colony will get a ___________________.

How do they get the money?

investment money

go in together

“share” of the profit

• BUT also, this way if the colony disappears again, the ______________ doesn’t hurt as much, since many people, not just one, put up money for the project…any ______________

• This system is called, a “___________” company

• Each investor puts money in the company expecting to _____________.

How do they get the money?

financial loss

losses are smaller

joint-stock

make a profit

New Joint-Stock Company: The Virginia

Company• In _____, the Virginia Company of

London received a charter (_________ __________) approving their wish to begin a new colony in Virginia.

• More than 100 colonists made the first trip to the new colony, expecting to get rich by finding ____ in the new world, just like the ________ did.

1607 contract from the King

goldSpanish

Work disease and starvation video

Jamestown: 1607• From the start, it was a disaster…• The site they settled was _______ and

full of __________, which gave the colonists ________. The drinking water was _____ and there was no place fit for _________.

• By 1608, only ____of the original settlers survived!

swampy

mosquitoesmalariadirty

farming38

to the rescue!

• When ___________ arrived at the miserable colony, he took control and said, “He that will not work _________ ________!”

• He organized work crews to __________ and traded for food with the local natives, the ___________ tribe.

• But the natives became nervous about the “white man” and began ________ the colony…

John Smith

shall not eat

build shelters

Powhatan

attacking

• Colonists were too terrified to leave the colony fort and many survived only by eating ___________________

• Although _____ more settlers had arrived that year, only ____survived the “______________.”

rats, snakes, and mice.

80060

starving times

John Smith saves Jamestown from failure

Finally, success!• By 1610, the settlers had discovered

that ________ grew very well on Virginia land…

• Conflict with the settlers developed because the ______________ treated them like ________, when they wanted a “share” of the tobacco _________!

• The company decided to allow settlers to _________ small plots of land to farm themselves.

tobacco

Virginia Companyemployees

profits

purchase

Great, but who will work the land?

• They got “___________________” from England to work the land. These are ____________ who ___________ sold their labor to colonists in exchange for the __________ to the new world.

• The first _______ from ________ were also brought to the new world in 1619 (much more on this subject later)

indentured servants

poor people temporarily

boat ticketslaves Africa

Colonists unhappy AGAIN!• The colonists soon became annoyed at the

____________ of the colony’s ___________, who represented ONLY the ______________.

• To get more ____________, the colonists developed a group of ___________________ to help govern the colony, called the House of ____________…

• this was the very _____________________ in the new world and gave colonists the ability to rule themselves _____________________.

strict rule governorVirginia Company

local controlelected representatives

Burgessesfirst representative body

WITHOUT the King

On Page 18 of your spiral, look back in your notes concerning the joint-stock company.

In your own words, write the definition of a joint stock company.

Then draw an illustration that explains it.

Pocahontas

Disney version…

Reality…