jamestown & the chesapeake beginnings of english america, 1607-1660
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Jamestown & the Chesapeake
Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660
Announcements/ Housekeeping Summer reading
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Discuss Both: HW 7 Summer Reading
Unit 1: British Colonial America Jamestown & The Chesapeake
Lecture Primary Source Reading “Sending Women to Virginia” (1622)
HW: GML pgs. 59 - 69
Agenda08.28.13
English Emigrants Between 1607-1700, over half a million people left England
Economic problems Overpopulation
Most of the English to North America were: young, single men lower ranks of English society
Three Colonial Regions: Chesapeake New England Middle
The Coming of the English
Indentured Servants:
Most Englishmen arrived as indentured servants voluntarily surrendered their freedom for a period of time (often
five to seven years) in exchange for passage to America.
Similiarity to slavery: Bought/ sold Permission to marry
Difference: Eventually would earn freedom
The Coming of the English
Englishmen and IndiansWanted landAcquired through treaties and or conflict
The Transformation of Indian LifeEnglish destroyed Indian way of lifeRuined Indian crops
The Coming of the English
The Jamestown Colony 1607 First PERMANENT English Colony Virginia Company Major issues:
No leadership High death rate Few supplies from England No farming experience
House of Burgess 1st legislature in the English colonies in America Same year, first Blacks arrive in Virginia
Settling the Chesapeake
Powhatan and Pocahantas Friendly at first John Smith & Pochontas
The Uprising of 1622 Colonists retaliated for an Indian attack. Afterwards, the English “held the balance of power” in Jamestown.
Settling the Chesapeake
A Tobacco Colony King James I Va’s GOLD!
Taxes High demand (30 Million pounds by 1680)
Increased demand for field labor
Women and the Family Shortage of woman at first Social conditions eventually opened new doors
Settling the Chesapeake
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