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Government: Who is in charge and how do
they lead?
Economics: How are they going to make
money or get the things they need to survive?
Community: Who are the members of the
community? What types of laws should
govern a community? What should members
of the community contribute?
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http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?
video_id=19705
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1606- James I gives
a land grant to the
Virginia Company
◦ Joint-stock company
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Land grant extends
from 45° North
Latitude to 35°
South Latitude
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Two branches of the Joint Stock Company
Bristol Branch
London Branch (1607)
◦ 5 goals
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Economics: make money to send back to London
Find a North-West passage to Asia
Patriotism
Outpost against Spain
Missionary Activities
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April 1607 Susan
Constant, Godspeed,
Discovery reach Cape
Henry
◦ Home of Chesapeake
Indians
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May 14th 1607 find
spot on James River
◦ Name it Jamestown
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Puts some men to work
He takes 21 men on a
“peace mission”
Learns that Chief
Powhatan rules all area
above Jamestown
Plants and cross, tries to
make nice,
Returns to an attacked
fort
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Supply Ships arrive
Out of the 140 men who arrived only 40
remain
John Smith arrives
7-8 die during winter
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planting seasons later
 500 people in the colony
 Starving
 Resort to cannibalism
 60 of 500 survive
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Still not growing
corn
Lord De La Warr
and the “Lawes
Divine, Morall and
Martiall”
Force the colony to
work
(read p. 80)
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Summer 1610
Accuse Chief
Powhatan of hiding
runaways
George Perry sent
to take revenge on
Paspeheans &
Chickahominies
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Kills 15-16 natives
including queen
and children
Burn homes and
crops
1612 Natives are
killing colonists
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March 1612
Colony and
Company not
making $$
1613-1614
John Rolfe saves
colony with
Tobacco
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1617 Begin Head
right system:
Pay your own way
get 50 acres of land
bring anyone else
get an additional 50
acres
Bring Indentured
Servants
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Indentured Servants
Agree to work for 7
years to get a
passage to new
world
1619 1st Africans
arrive
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1619 House of
Burgesses
1st representative
assembly in the
colonies
1622- Powhatan
attacks
¼ of settlement
gone
 James
I turns Virginia into a Royal
Colony
 Dissolves the House of Burgesses
 Appoints his own people to run
things
 1639- Charles I reforms the
House of Burgesses