Roanoke The Lost Colony and Jamestown The Lost

Roanoke (The Lost Colony) and Jamestown

The Lost Colony • Sir Walter Raleigh given rights to claim land for Queen Elizabeth • 1 st sends Philip Amadas and Arthur Bartlowe to check out sites • Find Roanoke Island off coast of NC • They depend too much on NA’s, strain relations, 1 st attempt fails

• 2 yrs later Raleigh sends John White and more men • White has to return to England for supplies and gets stuck there for 3 yrs due to war with Spain • White left his daughter there and his grand daughter is born– Virginia Dare– 1 st English child born in the new world

• When White returns, the settlement is abandoned, supplies left, no bodies • Only clue is word “Croatoan” carved several places nearby • White can’t search because of a hurricane, returns to England • No one knows what happened to settlers, Croatan Indians kill them? Live with them? Went and settled in mainland NC?

Jamestown • Joint-stock-company- investors share risk by investing but also profit • Sailed into Chesapeake Bay and up James River • Founded with 105 men • Problems: • On a swamp- diseases and mosquitos • Surrounded by unfriendly tribes • People wanted to look for gold all the time

• • • 1 st year many die of disease/starvation Captain John Smith takes over- whips people into shape (literally) Parts of Pocahontas story true did save his life She marries John Rolfe (new tobacco makes $) She goes to England, dies of disease

Conflict with the Powhatan • At first help colonists, they take advantage and get greedy • Jamestown grows and takes more land • Small fights break out, many killed on both sides, colonists burn many Powhatan villages

Life in Virginia • Headright system– encouraged settlers, 50 acres/person • Other towns develop outside of Jamestown • Many women are sent, men could buy a wife for certain pounds of tobacco • Plantations develop and slaves needed • Indentured servants– work for 4 -7 yrs in return for passage to New World • 1 st Representative (elected) Government is formed– House of Burgesses

Bacon’s Rebellion • • Nathanial Bacon, a wealthy VA farmer, lead others against Jamestown Mad about rights to land, conflict with NA’s Killed many NA’s, burned villages and then burned Jamestown Bacon dies and rebellion falls apart