Jamestown Colony Settlers' Jobs - PDF

Use your imagination to make a list of 5 important settlers’ jobs that would make Jamestown successful. Explain your reasons for each choice. [email protected] Grants a charter to the Virginia Company in 1606 to settle & civilize Ame...

Use your imagination to make a list of 5 important settlers’ jobs that would make Jamestown successful. Explain your reasons for each choice. [email protected] Grants a charter to the Virginia Company in 1606 to settle & civilize America Wants to prevent Spanish advancements in the New World & find a Northern Joint stock company Group of wealthy investors are shareholders Plan to establish settlements in America for a profit Sought economic opportunitie s Expected wealth from gold & In December 1606, 105 settlers & entrepreneurs set off for America Arrive in Virginia in April 1607 Edward Maria Wingfield elected president of governing council & selects the island location Far enough inland to hide from the Spanish Deep water anchor for the ships Swamp and river offers protection from local Native Americans About 14,000 Powhatan Indians lived in the Virginia area Chief Powhatan’s daughter was the famous Pocahontas  We bathe We practice and shave communal land our faces ownership. We every day, don’t really unlike the believe in English. “owning” land. We share it as a community. We worship the great spirits in nature, not in a church of any kind. Many of the settlers unaccustomed to work Didn’t plan for such harsh winters Too much time spent searching for gold & minerals Disease from the infected river Hunger from not planting crops Attacks by local Native Americans [email protected] Supposedly saved by Pocahontas Takes leadership of the colony “He that will not work, shall not eat.” [email protected] Only about 60 colonists left when 2 ships arrive from England with resources and new settlers 1612 - John Rolfe creates a smoother breed of tobacco Becomes very popular in England Tobacco becomes a cash crop colonists can sell John Rolfe marries Pocahontas which helps Growing tobacco is very labor-intensive & more colonists are needed to work Indentured Servants arrive - poor English who agree to work for a number of years in return for their Eventually even more labor is needed to keep up with demand First Africans brought to Jamestown in 1619 & Established in 1619 so colonists could make their own laws Becomes the first representative government in America [email protected] In 1620, about 90 women arrive from England Allows settlers to establish families & make Jamestown more of a