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ENGLAND AND SPAIN
- War between ^^^ ended 1604
- Spain lost control of seas
- England started first American colonies
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LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE
- John White - leader and mapmaker
- Virginia Dare - first American born English child
- White set out to get supplies, took 3 years
- Returned to deserted colony, only clue : CROATOAN carved in gate
- Did they go to Croatoan Island?
- Or did they starve or get killed by Native Americans?
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COLONIES IN AMERICA
- Virginia Company received charter to start colonies
- Sent 144 settlers in 3 ships to a)search for gold; b)establish fish and fur trade
- 40 died during voyage
- Named Jamestown after King James
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COLONY OF JAMESTOWN (SOUTH)
- Built on peninsula for defense
- land was swampy, filled with diseased mosquitoes and poor farmland
- Colonists not used to hard labor and searched for gold instead of farming
- by spring, 38 were alive
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JAMESTOWN ECONOMY
- Cpt. John Smith forced colonists to work, explore, and get corn
- John Rolfe - grew tobacco from W. Indies; married Pocahontas; saved Jamestown
- HEADRIGHT - landgrant giving 50 acres to ALL family members over 15
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JAMESTOWN GOVERNMENT
- All settlers - MEN( @ 1st)
- needed gov.; created HOUSE OF BURGESSES
- 2 Representatives from each town went to create laws
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NEW ARRIVALS IN JAMESTOWN
- 1619- 90 new women
- 20 servants(Africans) worked for time periods
- WILLIAM TUCKER - 1st American born African
- Jamestown suffered attack from Native Americans
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