Settlements of Roanoke Island and Jamestown.

Roanoke Island – “The Lost Colony”• Roanoke Island was the first British settlement in North America.

• Roanoke Island was first settled by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.

• Raleigh named the entire region Virginia.

• However, Roanoke Island is in present day North Carolina, where the capital is named Raleigh.

• In 1587, John White tries to start a British settlement on Roanoke Island.

• He and others had to return to England later in 1587 for supplies.

• Because of fighting between Britian and Spain, the colonists were unable to return to the colony until 1590.

• Colonists returned in 1590 to find that everyone had vanished. Only the word “Croatoan” was carved into a tree.

The Settlement of Jamestown• The settlement of Jamestown was started in Virginia by the Virginia Company in 1607.

• Captain John Smith saved Jamestown by:

- bargaining for food with the Powhatan Indians.

- calling for a “no work, no food” rule.

- 2/3’s of the colonists died of disease and hunger.

Model of Jamestown

• The colonist John Rolfe married the Powhatan princess Pocahontas.

JOHN ROLFE AND POCAHONTAS

early 1850s, J. W. Glass

Pocohantas

• This marriage brought peace between the colonists and the Powhatans, and ensured economic success for Jamestown after Pocahontas introduced tobacco to John Rolfe.