Roanoke and Jamestown

Chapter 4 lesson 2

Pages 130-133

Read Pages Read Pages

130130--133 silently 133 silently

and answer the and answer the

following following

questions in questions in

your Social your Social

Studies Studies

composition composition

book!book!

1. Where did John White think the

Roanoke settlers had gone?

2. What cash crop brought money to

Jamestown?

3. Why did the English settlers and the

Powhatans make peace?

Charter

•• A written A written

agreement agreement

giving giving giving giving

someone the someone the

right to right to

establish a establish a

colonycolony

INVEST

•To put

money into

a business a business

in the hope

of earning

a profit

stock

•A share or part of a company

Cash crop

•A crop that a farmer grows only grows only to sell

Indentured Servant• A person who

agreed to work for a certain number of years number of years in return for passage to America, food, clothing, and

shelter

Lost ColonyLost Colony• England wanted to

settle in North

America to find gold

and silver

• First English

settlements failed

• 1587- John White • 1587- John White

settled Roanoke

• White left back to

England for

supplies

• When he came back

Roanoke was gone

Jamestown Colony

• Jamestown was the first successful settlement in

America

• When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown they • When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown they

looked for gold.

• 1606 – Virginia Company was started

• 1607 – 100 men and boys traveled to Virginia

• Jamestown was named after King James 1

• In 1619, women and Africans were the first to arrive

in Jamestown.

John Smith

• Took command of

Jamestown

• “He who does not

work, will not eat”work, will not eat”

• 1609 – “Starving time”

– most colonist died

Jamestown Succeeds • 1612 – John Rolfe learned tobacco grew well in Virginia

• People paid high • People paid high price

• 1619 – First Africans arrived (indentured servants)

Jamestown and Powhatans

Powerful group of Indians lived in Jamestown –Powhatans

Powhatans and Powhatans and English battled until John Rolfe married Pocahontas

1646 – English took control of Jamestown

What you should remember!!

Jamestown is the first successful settlement in

north America.north America.

John Rolfe married Pocahontas.

Roanoke Jamestown

Colonies

Poor soil

Started by King

of England

Started by

Virginia

Company

Poor soil

No

gold or

silver

In present day

North Carolina

failed

Present day

Virginia

Succeeded