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Skeleton Notes on Jamestown

I. Setting
a. ___________ ___________ seeking
i. Navigable __________
ii. Deep harbor
iii. Native American __________ ____________
b. April 16___
i. Uninhabited peninsula 40 miles up the ___________ River
1. Easy to defend, close to _____________ Confederacy
2. Bad soil, brackish tidal water leading to disease
c. Powhatans: 10,000 Algonquian-speaking people
i. Hunted _______, ____, _________
ii. Planted ________, ________, _________
II. Characters
a. Colonists
i. Unprepared gentlemen seeking riches, not work

DQ: what would have been a series of sensible, responsible actions the colonists could have
taken but didn’t? What should they have done?

ii. Over _______ died in the first ______ months


b. ________ _________ took command
– “He that will not work shall not eat”
c. Chief Powhatan
i. Wanted to trade for English _______, kettles, tools, _______
ii. Kept the English alive the first winter
d. ___________________
iii. Daughter of Powhatan
iv. Marriage to John ________ in 1614: better relations between English and
Powhatans

III. Bad Times


a. Reinforcements: 400 new settlers in 1609
b. Winter of 16___-16____: the __________ time
i. Supplies lost at sea
ii. Guerilla war against the Powhatans
iii. _______________
c. 1616: ____% of settlers had died
d. English dependence on sporadic reinforcements, Native American help

DQ: is this sustainable? What will they need to do to break out of this dependency?

IV. Tobacco
a. Had already become popular in Europe, trade dominated by the ___________
b. 1616: first English tobacco crop planted by ________ __________
c. 1617: Jamestown’s first cargo of tobacco sent to England
d. Saved Virginia, inspired more colonists
e. Indentured servants: bonded to employers in return for . . .

DQ: how does indentured servitude differ from slavery? How do you suppose indentured
servants were treated?

f. Labor shortage
i. 1618 “headright policy”: ___ acres of land to any immigrant; ___ more
acres if they paid for another immigrant’s passage
ii. 16___: Dutch slave ship sold ____ Africans to Virginia colonists

V. Expansion
a. House of ___________: white land-owning representatives meeting in Jamestown
b. Powhatan died in 16_____, succeeded by his brother, Opechancanough
i. 3/22/1622: attack killing over _____ colonists (including _____ _______)
ii. Retaliatory massacres + disease = English forcing Powhatans off the land
iii. More . . .

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