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Chesapeake Colonies

Chesapeake Colonies. Virginia and Maryland. Chesapeake Colonies. Virginia. Virginia Company Joint Stock company Royal charter Jamestown (1607) John Smith “Starving time” 214-60. Virginia. Virginia. Tobacco John Rolfe. Virginia. Virginia. Labor Indentured servants Slavery (1619).

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Chesapeake Colonies

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  1. Chesapeake Colonies Virginia and Maryland

  2. Chesapeake Colonies

  3. Virginia • Virginia Company • Joint Stock company • Royal charter • Jamestown (1607) • John Smith • “Starving time” 214-60

  4. Virginia

  5. Virginia • Tobacco • John Rolfe

  6. Virginia

  7. Virginia • Labor • Indentured servants • Slavery (1619)

  8. Virginia • Warfare • Natives • Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) • Society • Citizenship • Hereditary slavery

  9. Virginia • Headright system • Acres per head • Poor • Indentured servants • Slaves • Population • Labor • Farmers

  10. Virginia • Corporate Colony • Board in England • House of Burgesses • Representative government • Precedent • Royal Colony 1624

  11. Maryland • Land grant (1632) • 10 million acres • Proprietary colony • Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore • Catholic refuge

  12. Maryland • Copy of Virginia • Tobacco • Plantations • Warfare with Indians • Indentured servitude • Slavery • Act of Toleration (1649) • Freedom of worship for all Christians

  13. Chesapeake Colonies • Social structure • Landed elite • Small farmers • Indentured • Slaves (1662 hereditary) • Families • Death • Women • Minority until 1700s • Remarry • Identity • English in America • Extermination of Natives • Trade

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