Chapter Six
Sir Walter Raleigh

 Sir Walter Raleigh was
an English aristocrat,
writer, poet, soldier,
courtier, spy, and
explorer. He is also well
known for popularizing
tobacco in England.
settlements

 A small community
that is started in a new
place.
Roanoke

 The name of the island
where the first English
settlement was started
in North America in
1587.
 Roanoke is located near
the coast of present-day
North Carolina.
The Lost Colony

 Over 400 years ago, 117
men, women and children
sailed from Plymouth,
England in an attempt to
settle on Roanoke Island;
they vanished just two
years later. The only clue
left behind was the word
“CROATOAN” carved
into a post. The Lost
Colony is their story.
CROATOAN
 Three years White finally
 returned to Roanoke. There
was NO sign of settlers.
Even the houses were gone.
The word CROATOAN
was carved on the gatepost
of a ruined fort.
 No one has ever discovered
what happened to the
colony. Everyone was lost
including his
granddaughter Virginia
Dare.
The Virginia CompanyPocahontas
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 http://www.youtube.c
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John Smith

 Sir John Smith Admiral of
New England was an English
soldier, explorer, and author.
 He was considered to have
played an important part in
the establishment of the first
permanent English settlement
in North America.
 He was a leader of the Virginia
Settlement (based at
Jamestown) between
September 1608 and August
1609, and led an exploration
along the rivers of Virginia
and the Chesapeake Bay.
 He was the first English
explorer to map the
Chesapeake Bay area and New
England.
Jamestown

 The first successful
English colony in North
America.
 It was founded in 1607
in present-day Virgina.
Jamestown Colony

 Jamestown was a settlement
in the Colony of Virginia,
the first permanent English
settlement in the Americas.
 Established by the Virginia
Company of London . It
followed several earlier
failed attempts, including
the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
 Jamestown served as the
capital of the colony for 83
years (from 1616 until 1699).
Chesapeake Bay
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 http://www.chesapeak
ebay.net/discover/bay
history/johnsmith
marsh

 Wet, low lying land
that is poorly drained.
 Unfortunatley the settle
of the Jamestown built
it one a marsh. The
water around the town
was dirty and salty.
 There were many
mosquitoes.
mosquitoes

 The females of many species of
mosquitoes are blood eating
pests.
 In feeding on blood, some of
them transmit extremely
harmful human and livestock
diseases, such as malaria.
 Some authorities argue
accordingly that mosquitoes are
the most dangerous animals on
Earth.
 In Jamestown the mosquitoes
carried malaria.
 By the end of 1607, disease and
other hardships had killed many
of the settlers.
Mine, Mine, MinePocahontas
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 The men coming to
Jamestown were seeking
gold. There were not
enough people growing
food for the colony.
 John Smith said that any
man who did not work
would not eat.
 https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=DSfYrPdTK
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colonists

 A person who settles in
a colony
Pocahontas

 Pocahontas (born Matoaka, and
later known as Rebecca Rolfe, c.
1595 – March 1617) was a
Virginia Indiana.
 She is known for her association
with the colonial settlement at
Jamestown Viginia.
 She was the daughter of
Powhatan, the chief of a
network of tributary tribal
nations in the Tidewater Region
of Virginia.
 She is said to have saved the life
of an Indian captive,
Englishman John Smith, in 1607
by placing her head upon his
own when her father raised his
war club to execute him.
Chief Powhatan

 Chief Powhatan (died 1618),
whose proper name was
Wahunsenacawh (sometimes
spelled Wahunsonacock), was
the chief of the
Tsenacommacah, an alliance
of Algonquian speaking
Virginia Indians in the
Tidewater region of Virginia
at the time English settlers
landed at Jamestown in 1607.
 He was the father of
Pocahontas who eventually
converted to Christianity and
married the settler John Rolfe.
Savages, Savages
 The colonists and the
Native Americans did
now always get along
and had many trying
times.
 https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=2av9SQs
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Starving Time
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 In 1609 women and
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children came to the
Jamestown.
The next month, Smith
returned to England after
being badly wounded.
Powhatan stopped
trading with colonists
and the local tribes
attacked the them.
The winter of 1609-1610
was known as the
Starving Time.
Only 60 settlers survived.
tobacco

 The colonists never found
gold but John Rolfe
learned how to grow
tobacco.
 The settlers planted this
cash crop.
 In 1614 they began to
trade their tobacco for
money and supplies.
 Tobacco became
Virginia's gold.
Pocahontas and John
Rolfe

 In 1614 Pocahontas
married John Rolfe.
 For a time the colonists
and the Native
Americans were at
peace.
 Pocahontas went to
England with John
Rolfe and met King
James but she died in
1617 after becoming ill.
democratic

 Relating to a form of
government in which
people have the power to
rule themselves, often
through elected
representatives.
 In 1619 the men elected
representatives. This was
the FIRST representative
government in America.
It was called the House of
Burgesses.
 Only wealthy men could
have this job.
Settlement of Plymouth

 In 1620 the Pilgrims
sailed from England.
They traveled on a ship
called the Mayflower.
After more than two
months at sea, they
landed on the tip of
Cape Cod.
Separatists

 King James said that
everyone in England
had to belong to the
Church of England.
 Some people refused.
 Among these were the
group called
Separatists.
Pilgrims

 The Separatists decided
to move to a place
where they could be
free to practice their
own religion. In time
this group became
known as Pilgrims.
Plymouth

 A town started in 1602
by early English settlers
called Pilgrims.
 Plymouth is located in
present-day
Massachusetts.
Mayflower

 The Mayflower departed
Plymouth England on September
6/16, 1620, with 102 passengers
and about 30 crew members
aboard the small 100-foot ship.
 During the first month of the
voyage, the seas were not severe,
but by the second month the ship
was being hit by strong North
Atlantic winter gales, causing the
ship to be badly shaken, with
water leaking from structural
damage.
 There were two deaths, but this
was just a precursor of what
happened after their arrival in
Cape Cod, when almost half the
company would die in the first
winter.
 https://vimeo.com/112514732
Mayflower Compact

 The Pilgrims drew up a
plan of government.
They wrote down rules
to help them live
together peacefully.
 Most of the men signed
this agreement know as
the Mayflower
Compact.
 They elected a
governor.
Common House

 After arriving in
Plymouth, the Pilgrims
began to build houses
and a meeting hall
called the Common
House.
First Winter

 The first winter was very
hard. The Pilgrims had
landed too late to plant
crops. The climate was
cold and harsh. Nearly
half of the 102 Pilgrims
died of disease and
starvation before spring.
One a few settlers
remained healthy enough
to care for the others.
Squanto

 In March 1621, a man named
Squanto visited the Pilgrims.
He was a member of the
Pawtuxet tribe but was
living with the nearby
Wampanoags.
 Squanto had learned English
while in England.
 Squanto stayed with the
Pilgrims and taught them
how to plant corn, catch fish,
and get sweet syrup from
the maple trees.
 The Pilgrims felt that God
had sent Squanto to help
them.