Upload
farren
View
44
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Jamestown, Virginia. For whom, was the settlement at Jamestown named for?. What? When?. Jamestown. 1 st permanent English settlement in N. America 1607. WHO?. King James I. became King of England in 1603 succeeded Queen Elizabeth I - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
Jamestown, Virginia
For whom, was the settlement at Jamestown named for?
What?When?
Jamestown • 1st permanent English settlement in N. America
• 1607
WHO?
King James I • became King of England in 1603
• succeeded Queen Elizabeth I
• Authorized and financed the translation of the Bible into English
• Granted a charter to the Virginia Company to organize a settlement in Virginia
http://www.nightimeuk.com
charter- official document that gives certain rights to an individual or a group
The Virginia Company • A joint-stock company (investors bought stock in return for a share in profits)
• Hoped to find gold• Hoped to establish a
trade in fish and fur
Apva.org
The Colonists • 105 Englishmen and boys
• Mostly “gentlemen”
Why?
Motives Reasons
Purpose
• Mostly to get rich– Gold, iron– Timber– Northwest passage to
Asia• Prevent the Spanish
from settling there– Limit spread of
Catholicism• Convert the natives to
Christianity• Look for Roanoke
Colonists
How?
The Voyage • 3 ships– Susan Constant– Discovery– Godspeed
• 144 Days
Where?
Location• Island provided a deep water port (easier
for ships)• Easily defendable because it was
surrounded on three sides by water and swamp on the fourth.
Major Difficulties ensued…
• Food shortages• Disease and illness• Relationship with the
Powatan• Lack of skilled labor
• Only 4 carpenters, two bricklayers, 1 mason and 1 blacksmith arrived with the first settlers
• 1 tailor, 1 barber, 2 surgeons
After 8 months, only 38 of the original 104 had survived
Women? – a year later Mistress Forrest and her maid arrived
– Most women who followed were wives of men already there
– 1620, 90 women came to serve as wives with 50 more following in 1621
Government • first representative assembly in North America
• capitol of Virginia until 1699 when it was moved to Williamsburg.
Check this out!
• Virtual Jamestown -http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html
• JR - http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=67