Economics and Colonization. European Exploration and Colonization of North America.
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Settlements of Roanoke Island and Jamestown.
Roanoke Island – “The Lost Colony”• Roanoke Island was the first British settlement in North America.
• Roanoke Island was first settled by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.
• Raleigh named the entire region Virginia.
• However, Roanoke Island is in present day North Carolina, where the capital is named Raleigh.
• In 1587, John White tries to start a British settlement on Roanoke Island.
• He and others had to return to England later in 1587 for supplies.
• Because of fighting between Britian and Spain, the colonists were unable to return to the colony until 1590.
• Colonists returned in 1590 to find that everyone had vanished. Only the word “Croatoan” was carved into a tree.
The Settlement of Jamestown• The settlement of Jamestown was started in Virginia by the Virginia Company in 1607.
• Captain John Smith saved Jamestown by:
- bargaining for food with the Powhatan Indians.
- calling for a “no work, no food” rule.
- 2/3’s of the colonists died of disease and hunger.
Model of Jamestown
• The colonist John Rolfe married the Powhatan princess Pocahontas.
JOHN ROLFE AND POCAHONTAS
early 1850s, J. W. Glass
Pocohantas
• This marriage brought peace between the colonists and the Powhatans, and ensured economic success for Jamestown after Pocahontas introduced tobacco to John Rolfe.