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    The document summarizes the establishment and early challenges of the Jamestown colony in Virginia. It describes how the colony was founded in 1607 by 105 colonists who established Jamestown on the James River. The colony struggled initially with disease, lack of food and difficult governing. John Smith established new laws to improve survival and the colony began to transition to a representative government system with the establishment of the House of Burgesses in 1619.

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    The document summarizes the establishment and early challenges of the Jamestown colony in Virginia. It describes how the colony was founded in 1607 by 105 colonists who established Jamestown on the James River. The colony struggled initially with disease, lack of food and difficult governing. John Smith established new laws to improve survival and the colony began to transition to a representative government system with the establishment of the House of Burgesses in 1619.

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    The document summarizes the establishment and early challenges of the Jamestown colony in Virginia. It describes how the colony was founded in 1607 by 105 colonists who established Jamestown on the James River. The colony struggled initially with disease, lack of food and difficult governing. John Smith established new laws to improve survival and the colony began to transition to a representative government system with the establishment of the House of Burgesses in 1619.

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    Building The Jamestown Colony: By. Jamie Shields, Devin Edwards, Beth Anne, John Chailie

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    Building the Jamestown Colony

    By. Jamie Shields, Devin Edwards,


    Beth Anne, John Chailie
    The First English Colony
     With Queen Elizabeth's permis-
    sion, sir Walter Raleigh raised
    money to outfit the colony in
    North America.
     In 1585, almost 100 men sailed
    across the Atlantic Ocean.
     The colonists landed on Roanoke,
    an island off the coast of present-
    day North Carolina.
     In 1587, Raleigh sent John White
    back to the island with a new
     When the supplies ran low, White
    went back to England, leaving 117
    colonists behind.
     When White returned to England,
    they were preparing for war with
    Spain.
    Challenge and Survival in
    Jamestown
     In 1606, the Virginia Company got
    a charter from King James.
     A charter is a legal document giv-
    ing certain rights to a person or
    company.
     In spring 1607, a group of 105
    colonists arrived in Virginia.
     They sailed into Chesapeake bay
    and set up houses along the
    James river and called there vil-
    lage Jamestown, after their king.
     Jamestown was located in a
    swampy area the water was un-
    healthy and mosquitoes spread
    malaria.
     Governing proved difficult as well,
    there was a council of 13 men ap-
    pointed to rule the settlement but
    they quarreled a lot and did little
    to plan for the colony's future.
     By summer 1608, the colony was
    near failure.
     Colonists also faced starvation,
    they had not planted many crops,
    they would rather look for gold.
     John Smith made laws saying you
    Representative Government
     Governors sent by Virginia company
    ran the colony like a military out post.
     Settlers were assigned work.
     Even small offenses could be punished
    with death.
     The harsh laws didn't do any good at-
    tracting colonists.
     Virginia company worked at establish-
    ing a new government to attract set-
    tlers.
     Burgesses are representatives of the
     House of Burgesses is an assembly
    of Burgesses.
     Burgesses met in house of Bur-
    gesses with government and set-
    tlers to make laws.
     First session met in Jamestown
    Church in July and August of 1619.
     Representative Government-
    voters elect representatives to
    make laws for them.
     In 1215, English nobles forced
    King John to sign Magna Carta or
    Great Charter.
     Magna Carta stated that king John
    couldnt raise taxes without con-
     Great Council became a representative
    assembly known as parliament.
    New Arrivals
     The first women arrived in 1608.
     Few worker's came to raise tobacco an
    other crops.
     Virginia Company sent about 100 wo-
    men to help “make the men more
    settled.”
     They charged each man who found a
    wife 150 pounds of tobacco.
     Men were almost twice as likely as
    women to die from diseases or other
    causes.
     Women made everything from scratch
     Anthony Johnson owned 250 acres of
    land and employed five servants to
    help him work.
     In the late 1600's Virginia set up a sys-
    tem of laws allowing white colonists to
    enslave Africans for life.
     The early 1700's, free African properly
    owners could not vote.

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