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    The first permanent English colony in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London. The initial purpose of the colony was to find gold and a route to China, but tobacco eventually became a profitable cash crop. The colony struggled at first due to lack of food and disease, but was saved by the leadership of Captain John Smith who instituted a policy of work discipline. Relations with the local Powhatan Indians were initially hostile but became more peaceful following Pocahontas' marriage to John Rolfe in 1614. Over the following decades the colony became self-sufficient and established representative government through the House of Burgesses, though it remained under control of the British crown.

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    The first permanent English colony in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London. The initial purpose of the colony was to find gold and a route to China, but tobacco eventually became a profitable cash crop. The colony struggled at first due to lack of food and disease, but was saved by the leadership of Captain John Smith who instituted a policy of work discipline. Relations with the local Powhatan Indians were initially hostile but became more peaceful following Pocahontas' marriage to John Rolfe in 1614. Over the following decades the colony became self-sufficient and established representative government through the House of Burgesses, though it remained under control of the British crown.

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    The first permanent English colony in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London. The initial purpose of the colony was to find gold and a route to China, but tobacco eventually became a profitable cash crop. The colony struggled at first due to lack of food and disease, but was saved by the leadership of Captain John Smith who instituted a policy of work discipline. Relations with the local Powhatan Indians were initially hostile but became more peaceful following Pocahontas' marriage to John Rolfe in 1614. Over the following decades the colony became self-sufficient and established representative government through the House of Burgesses, though it remained under control of the British crown.

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    Jamestown Virginia England’s 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 can profit from
    all

    When they reach Virginia, they


    had a plan to profit from all the
    valuable resources.
    King James says
    we get all this
    land….forever

    VIRGINI
    A
    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.
    All right, let’s motor, baby!

    Wow, that was quick!

    Jamestown

    105 men and boys of the Virginia Company set


    sail on three ships: Susan Constant, Discovery,
    and Godspeed. They landed April 26, 1607!
    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
    Sir George Percy wrote there
    wee landed and discovered
    faire meadows and goodly
    tall trees: with such fresh
    water running through the
    Who are they ?
    woods as I was almost
    ravished at the first sight of
    thereoff…

    Lets call this


    James town
    Virginia England

    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.
    The Colonists built a triangular fort at Jamestown

    They Tried To
    Find A Path To They Dug
    China For Gold

    And During Winter, Many


    Were Killed By Disease But They Didn’t Plant
    Enough Crops For
    Food
    In 1608, Captain John Smith took charge and saved the colony by imposing a work ethic since half
    the settlers were gentlemen who weren’t used to working.

    You gentlemen need to


    work harder to help this
    colony prosper. He that will
    not work, shall not eat!
    “Awww….my
    hands… S@#$!”
    “Hey, no
    swearing!!!”

    When the men would work, there hands would


    become painful and they would swear out loud.
    Smith didn’t like this, so to discipline them he would
    pour cold water down there sleeves.
    Maybe we
    should wait
    and see if we
    can trade with I think we
    them. should attack
    them.

    Meanwhile, Powhatan, chief of the


    Powhatan Confederacy, discussed the
    English at Werowocomocotook, his
    capital village fourteen miles from
    Jamestown.
    Pocahontas persuades tribe to befriend Englishmen when she saved
    Captain John Smith, and began the Peace of Pocahontas.

    Friend.
    Tobacco is Horrible!

    King James
    But look at how Says Tobacco is
    well the sales Bad for you. It
    are doing! is HAZARDOUS
    In 1612, even to your health!
    though no one in
    Jamestown liked to
    use tobacco, it
    became their
    version of “gold.”
    The Virginia
    Company gained
    profit from this, and
    everyone back in
    England loved it.
    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.

    Lets get out of here, Pocahontas!


    The House of Burgesses m
    1619 for the first time in Ja
    Virginia. Five generations l
    the Virginia assembly leade
    grown accustomed to politi
    would eventually lead colo
    independence from Englan
    The Headright System allowed private 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! I’m
    going to bring
    over my son, so I
    can have another
    50 acres!
    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 BRIDE’S PASSAGE
    Yay!
    Slaves!

    In 1619, the same time the Virginia


    company 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
    In 1622, tragedy struck Virginia! On good Friday indians suprise attacked colonists
    wiping out ¼ of the colony But 1000 of the 9000 indiands survived
    In 1624- King James I, who didn’t like the representative government, used the massacre and the Virginia Company’s
    financial problems as an excuse to revoke the Company’s 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.
    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


    printing…for learning has brought
    disobedience, and Hersey, and sects into the
    world, and printing has divulged them, and
    libels against the best Government. God
    keeps us from both.”
    In the 1670’s 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
    Time to stir up a
    rebellion! I am
    tired of
    Governor
    Berkeley! In 1676 Nathaniel
    Bacon stirred a
    rebellion, and threw
    Governor Berkeley out.
    Burn Jamestown was
    Jamestown, burned, but King
    Burn!! Charles soon restored
    order.

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