word‚ “Croatian” carved in a tree. Jamestown What is a joint-stock company? ______________________________________________ Name two companies that we have discussed that were joint-stock companies. Virginia Company of London and Virginia Company of Plymouth A joint-stock company would closely resemble what today in the United States? Stock market‚ New York Stock Exchange‚ wall street What was the first permanent English settlement in America? Jamestown What type of geographical feature best
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The English were one of the European powers that sought to build and empire in the New World in the 1600s. Jamestown and the Virginia Colony were founded by the Virginia Company of London which hoped to benefit economically from their investments. New Hampshire and New York were also founded for commercial reasons. On the other hand‚ Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony were founded by Separatists and Puritans who hoped to practice their religion freely. Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were
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“Captain Smith also made very detailed maps of the New England coast and it was likely that his maps were used to find the next English settlement” 6http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=17zCU76ZtH0C&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&dq=new+plymouth+colony&ots=Tl5SIhABFv&sig=iKSTmRIXtoGAPdx0AzpAG8b0O3M#v=onepage&q&f=false 7http://books.google.com/books?id=XxM9AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false The
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The Early Chesapeake • The founding of Jamestown: -1607 Established their colony‚ named Jamestown -London company promoters had no desire of a family-centered community‚ there were no women in Jamestown -Captain John smith became council president in fall of 1608‚ later on smith left - • Reorganization -1609 the London company was changed to The Virginia company. From the king they got more power over the colony and also more land. -Winter of 1609-1610 became known as the “starving Time”
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Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh : 1584 Everybody remembers Jamestown‚ Capt. John Smith‚ Pocahontas and all the rest. But do you remember Roanoke? In 1585‚ after a small scouting expedition had returned from North America with two Native Americans and many astonishing stories‚ Sir Walter Raleigh tried to establish a colony called Roanoke in the land which the British named "Virginia"‚ in honor of Elizabeth‚ the Virgin Queen. The site was actually an island on North America’s eastern seaboard protected
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renamed the Virginia Company; English stockholders in Virginia Company “The Virginia Colony” Reading & Discussion ●Based upon the reading ○What were the expectations of the early Jamestown colonists? ○What were conditions like during the early years of the Jamestown colony? Entrepreneurs in Virginia ●Jamestown was settled in 1607 along the Chesapeake Bay: work for Chesapeake colonists did not ○the location was& many starved to the common good unhealthy but easy to defend from Spanish ships
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North American Territory The United Kingdom gradually became interested in the North American territory through a series of events. First was their use of privateers to private Spanish merchant ships. Being an island country‚ the United Kingdom also happened to have the most heavily populated empire in the Old world. It’s so populated they began sending people over from the United Kingdom to the New world to reduce the population in their country. This lead to more and more colonists and ultimately
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settle. They were looking for the first permanent place to colonize. The land that the Europeans settled in is now known as Virginia. It’s noteworthy because Jamestown had the same story as Roanoke. They were both attempts for the English to settle but both mysteriously disappeared‚ and both weren’t successful. Before Jamestown and Plymouth rock there was Roanoke. John White sets out on sail to look for this place to colonize. However‚ he did not know that there were already a group of Native
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“Starving Time”—Jamestown struggled to survive 1. The location on the Chesapeake was swampy & located in the heart of the _________Powhatan____________________________ Indian lands 2. Colonists expected immediate wealth from gold‚ failed to plant crops‚ & faced major __starvation____________________________ 3. With the brief exception of ___John Smith _______________________‚ Jamestown lacked leadership to unify the colonists D. Jamestown Survives 1. The Jamestown colonists hoped
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Dates: 1607- King James I gave the permission to start a tobacco colony: North America‚ Virginia‚ Jamestown 1620-pilgrims arrived from England 1630-Puritans arrived MA 1765-Stamp Act: purchase stamps to show you paid taxes on all printed items. Quartering Act: must feed and house soldiers 1773- Boston Tea Party: colonists dressed up as Indians‚ toss 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor 1775- The American Revolution begins this year 1776- Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense”
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