ENGLAND'S SOUTHERN COLONIST

POCAHONTAS

• Daughter of chief Powhatan
• Settlers would not survive without native Americans
• Conflicts arose between Jamestown and native americans; Pocahontas kidnapped and held at Jamestown
• John Rolfe married Pocahontas
• Both Native American and Jamestown settlers concluded the war

ENGLAND'S FIRST AMERICAN COLONIES

• Promoters were gentlemen of Southwestern England
• Sir Walter Raleigh favored by queen Elizabeth I
• Increase fortune and power in England
• America solved England's problem
• Shipping poor people to work on new colony
• Mining gold and silver and raising plantation crops

FIRST AMERICAN COLONIES: gEORGIA

ROANOKE COLONY FAILS

• After getting a boat or permission from the king, the group made a joint stock company
• Founded and run by some investors who share in the company's gains and losses
• 1580s, Raleigh colonize Roanoke twice
• Struggled to get supplies, and terrible soil
• First colonist returned home; second set were never heard

THE VIRGINIA COMPANY SENDS COLONISTS

• 1607, the colonists went to colonize Chesapeake Bay
• Dealt with powerful Indians divided into 30 tribes
• United by the rule of a powerful chief named Powhatan
• Rather than fight the colonists, Powhatan hoped to keep them contained and use them against his own enemies
• Traded with colonist for futuristic weapons
• Colonist wanted Indian lands
• Did not care the Indians occupied, used, and had traditional bonds to the land

JAMESTOWN OVERCOME HARDSHIPS

• Colonist founded new settlement on May 13, 1607; named Jamestown
• Swamps surrounding and defending town from attacks infested w/ mosquitos that carried diseases
• Captain John Smith forced colonists to work after they refused to farm, and even traded with local natives
• 60/200 Jamestown settlers survived during winter of 1607-1622

CONFLICT WITH NATIVE AMERICANS
1609-war breaks out between the Indians and colonists
1513- English capture Pocahontas, Cheif Powhatan's favorite daughter
Powhatan makes peace

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MARYLAND

• Established in 1632 and the northern head of Chesapeake bay by the English King
• Named after queen of the new monarch to honor her
• Given to Lord Baltimore whom owned and governed the land
• It was mainly Catholic because Catholicism was Lord Baltimore's religion
• More Protestants moved than Catholics escalating into civil and armed violence

THE CAROLINAS

• Colony establishes on the coast, north of Florida
• It was called Catalonia honoring King Charles II
• Another way he was honored is by the first settlement named Charlestown
• In 1691, the proprietor of the land set aside the northern section namin it North Carolina
• in 1729 the people of Carolina rejected the control of the Lords Proprietor

WAR WITH OPECHANCANOUGH
• Colonist took more land for farming to grow tobacco
The land was from the natives and once was loss they became enrage
• 1622, Opechancanough led an attack that killed 1/3 of the colony
• Colonist counterattack destroying villages and crops natives used
• After 10 years of war, peace was made, but they took more land

BACON'S REBELLION

• As more land was taken, farms began to set up on infertile lands
• The inferior land was far from town transporting was cost ineffective
• Royal Governor of Virginia placed a heavy taxes on crops and plants
• The heavy taxes helped start a rebellion lead by Nathaniel bacon

BACON'S REBELLION CONT.

• Bacon died due to diseases
• Rebellion signified farms stand against taxes
• Rebels march into Jamestown pushed the government out

TOBACCO CROP SAVES THE COLONY

• Virginia had spent more than 50,000 English pound Greatly in debt in that time The company saved the colony by allowing the colonists to own and work land as their private property
• Led by John Rolfe, the colonist learned to cultivate tobacco in 1616.
• Became the principal supplier of tobacco to Europe

FREE LAND ATTRACTS COLONIST TO VIRGINIA
•Profit attracted more immigrants to Virginia
•Also, Virginia company offered land
•Profit attracted more immigrants to Virginia
•Enables the wealthiest colonists to acquire large plantations
Landowners imported workers from England to work the plantations

HOUSE OF BURGESSES
Virginia company granted political reforms
1619, it allows planters to create the House of Burgesses, the first representative body in colonial America
Male landowners could elect two leaders, known as Burgesses, to represent their settlement in the Colonial government