Jamestown Virginia England’s first permanent colony in America.

Planned as a trading settlement by Virginia Company of London.

The purpose was to make money for the 650 people who invested
in it and paid 12 pounds and ten shillings per stock in the Virginia
company .
 we can profit from
all

When they reach Virginia, they

had a plan to profit from all the
valuable resources.
 Land
Lets go Ho!
explore
The Virginia Company’s charter, granted our
by King James I, created Virginia’s land!
boundaries along points of the 34th and
41st parallels, running” from sea to sea,” Virginia
west and north west. No one had any
idea of the distance from sea to sea.
Virginia’s indefinite western border
caused problems later on.
 All right, let’s motor, baby!

Wow, that was quick!

Jamestown

105 men and boys of the Virginia Company set

sail on three ships: Susan Constant, Discovery,
and Godspeed. They landed April 26, 1607!
 WE WILL
NOT BE
ATTACKED!!!

Jamestown

The men settled 30 miles up the

James River so they would
never be attacked by Spain!
They were counseled by seven
men by the Virginia company!
Sir George Percy wrote: “We landed and discovered
meadows and tall trees with rivers running through the
woods”
 Virginia England

Virginia became a seedling of liberties for in the Virginia company's charter King James I granted
Virginians with the same liberties that they would have been born into in England.
 NO LOOK FOR GOLD

We need more to
plant more food Or
we will die.!!!!

No look for
path to china
 IN 1608, CAPTAIN
JOHN SMITH
DECLARED HE THAT
WILL NOT WORK,
SHALL NOT EAT
 *@#$ I HATE WORKING

Whoa calm down we are

almost done. No need for
bad language.

Hurt gentlemen are tired of works with they’re tender hands are
swearing. While the lower class people are still working hard.
Powhatan discusses the Englishmen at Werowocomoco, 14 miles from Jamestown.

“No,
“No,let’s
let’swait
wait
“Chief, and
andsee.
see.Maybe
Maybe
“Chief,let’s
let’skill
kill we
them now before
them now before wecan
cantrade
trade
they with
withthem.”
them.”
theytake
takeour
our
land.”
land.”
Pocahontas persuades tribe to befriend Englishmen when she saved
Captain John Smith, and began the Peace of Pocahontas.

Friend.
 Tobacco is Horrible!

King James
But look at how Says Tobacco is
well the sales Bad for you. It
are doing! is HAZARDOUS
In 1612, even to your health!
though no one in
Jamestown liked to
use tobacco, it
became their
version of “gold.”
The Virginia
Company gained
profit from this, and
everyone back in
England loved it.
 In 1614, John Rolfe married Pocahontas. She became a Christian that day. She
changed her named Lady Rebecca and was taken to King James by the Virginia
Company. When Pocahontas died, in 1617, the Peace of Pocahontas ended.

Lets get out of here, Pocahontas!

The House of Burgesses met in the year 1619, in the
month of July. They assembled in Jamestown, Virginia.
Nearly 160 years later, in 1776, leaders from that same
Virginia assembly would grow accustomed to political
freedom and lead the colonies to independence from
England.

We will
lead the
colonies!
The Headright System allowed private ownership of land (as opposed
to company ownership) Each pre-1616 settler received 100 acres of free
land. Each thereafter received 50 acres, plus another 50 acres for every
person brought to England.

Amazing! I’m
going to bring
over my son, so I
can have another
50 acres!
 NINETY ADVENTUROUS WOMEN ARIVED IN 1619, SENT BY THE VIRGINA
COMPANY AS WIVES FOR THE JAMESTOWN SETTLERS. EACH GROOM PAID 120
POUNDS OF TOBACCO FOR HIS BRIDE’S PASSAGE
 Yay!
Slaves!

In 1619, the same time the Virginia

company extended freedom to the
colony, groups were brought to
virginia.20 Africans were sold to
settlers. They were freed many years
later, but in the 1600s, slavery came
back
In 1622, tragedy struck Virginia! On good Friday indians suprise attacked colonists
wiping out ¼ of the colony But 1000 of the 9000 indiands survived
 I REVOKE
the charter!
arrr…

In 1624- King James I, who didn’t like the representative government, used the massacre and
the Virginia Company’s financial problems as an excuse to revoke the Company’s Charter and
make Virginia a royal colony. He dismissed the house of Burgesses, but the members met
anyway. King James I, son in 1639 King Charles I reinstated the House of Burgesses. Virginians
prospered under royal rule, but they guarded their right to legislative self government.
Sir William Berkeley served as one of the first royally
appointed governors of Virginia (1642). Although an
able ruler, he had no use for freedoms.

“I thank God there are no free schools, nor

printing…for learning has brought
disobedience, and Hersey, and sects into the
world, and printing has divulged them, and
libels against the best Government. God
keeps us from both.”
In the 1670’s frontier settlers in western Virginia
rebelled against the autocratic rule of Governor
Berkeley. He levied high taxes, while denying
frontiersmen a voice in the government and
protected against invading Indians
Time to stir up a
rebellion! I am
tired of
Governor
Berkeley! In 1676 Nathaniel
Bacon stirred a
rebellion, and threw
Governor Berkeley out.
Burn Jamestown was
Jamestown, burned, but King
Burn!! Charles soon restored
order.