Early Settlers

Roanoke, Jamestown, and Popham Unit Study

A fascinating study of the first English colonies in the New World.

Adventure, tragedy, mystery, crime, an international war and political intrigue shaped those first settlements and impacted the lives of the brave souls who attempted to settle the new world.

This multi-level unit study has activities, readings, maps, and information.

Multi-Level: 3rd - 12th Grade
May be adapted to include older and younger students.

Purpose and Content

Students, teachers, and parents alike will learn more about the fascinating history as cultures collide and a new civilization is formed. Students will understand how old world forces shaped the history of this era.

• Elizabethean England: Lessons 1 & 4
• Philip II and Spanish Armada
• Privateering and Letters of Reprisal
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Reasons for colonization
• Native Cultures of the Mid Atlantic: Lessons 2 & 3
• Secotan tribe
• Crotoan tribe
• White's drawings
• Roanoke Colony: Lessons 5 - 10
• 1584 Exploration
• 1585 Fort
• 1587 Settlement
• The Lost Colony and White's last two voyages
• What went wrong?
• Jamestown: 1607 to 1609 - Lessons 11 - 18
• 1607 Settlement
• Archaelogy and Original Sources
• Leaders: John Smith, Newport, and others
• First three Supplies
• Sea Venture and Bermuda (1609 - 1610): Lessons 19 - 22
• Wreck of the Sea Venture
• 10 months on the Island
• Strachey's report
• Onward to Jamestown
• Effect of the Sea Venture Survivors
• Jamestown: 1610 - 1614: Lessons 22 - 27
• Starving Time
• Arrival of Lord De La Warr
• Martial Law
• Pochontas: History, Legend, and Archaelogy
• Powhatan & Smith and the 1st theory of the Lost Colonists
• Theories of the Lost Colonists - Lessons 28 - 29
• #1 (1608): Killed by Powhatan
• #2 (1610): Shipwrecked
• #3 (1600's): The Group Split
• #4 (1701): Books that Talk
• #5 (1888): Lumbee Tribe
• #6 (1937): Dare Stone
• #7 (2012): Hidden Fort at Site X
• #8 (2017): Major Hurricane
• #9 Questions about the primary sources
• Popham Colony: Lessons 30 - 33
• The London Company
• Old Friends and New Faces
• John Hunt's Map: Zuniga Strikes Again!
• End of the Colony
• Historical Archaeology and Popham Colony: Finding the Forgotten Fort
• Who Cares About an Old Colony? Lessons From Popham
• Jamestown: 1617 to 1619: Lessons 34 - 38
• Nathaniel Powell remembers the past and senses changes to come
• First Legislative Assembly of 1619
• 11 Settlements: 11 Representatives
• The Four Charters
• War in Angola and Congo
• Journey of the White Lion
• Privateering and Slavery
• Looking Back and Looking Ahead

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  Native Paintings

  Algonquian Culture
  Roanoke

  Timeline of Events
  The Lost Colony

  Nine Theories
  Jamestown Stories

  The Best Kids' Books
  Jamestown Maps

  Historical & New
  John Smith's Map

  Join the Scavenger Hunt
  Sea Venture

  Timeline of Events
  Sea Venture Game

  What Happened?
  True Report

  Modern Transliteration
  Sea Venture

  11 Outcomes of the Wreck
  Pocahontas

  19 Facts From History
  History vs Legend

  Did she rescue Smith?
  Who Was Kocoum?

  Two Different Theories
  Powhatan Attack?

  1st Theory of the Colonists
  Popham Settlement

  Sagadahoc Colony
  Irony of 1619

  Two Jamestown Events
  
  
  

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