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Jamestown/Virginia & Maryland

Jamestown/Virginia & Maryland. First English Attempts. 1585/1587 2 attempts at Roanoke Colony 2 nd – “Lost Colony”. Jamestown—1607. Virginia Company Joint stock company Middle class investors included Shared speculation. Early Jamestown. John Smith Aristocrats – primogeniture

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Jamestown/Virginia & Maryland

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  1. Jamestown/Virginia & Maryland

  2. First English Attempts • 1585/1587 • 2 attempts at Roanoke Colony • 2nd – “Lost Colony”

  3. Jamestown—1607 • Virginia Company • Joint stock company • Middle class investors included • Shared speculation

  4. Early Jamestown • John Smith • Aristocrats – primogeniture • “Starving Time” (1609-1610) • Powhatan • Pocahontas

  5. Beginnings of prosperity • John Rolfe – tobacco (1614) • Plantation system • Headright system • Indentured servitude

  6. Virginia changes • House of Burgesses (1619) • Royal colony (1624)

  7. Maryland (1634) • Proprietary colony • George Calvert, Lord Baltimore • Act of Toleration (1649)

  8. 17thC Chesapeake Society • Agricultural – few towns • Anglican church • Few clergy • High death rates • Mostly men (at first) • Weaker kinship bonds • Tidewater aristocracy control

  9. Battles between Virginians • Voting restrictions • Regressive taxation • Rich vs. poor • East (tidewater) vs. west (hills)

  10. Bacon’s Rebellion-1676 • Causes • Frontier expansion • No frontier protection • Rich vs. poor • Tidewater v. backcountry

  11. Nathaniel Bacon • Wealthy coastal planter • Raised army to fight Indians in west w/o Berkeley’s consent • Army marched on Jamestown

  12. Bacon’s Rebellion-1676 • Effects • Berkeley replaced • Tobacco export tax • Colonists realized reliance on world mkt • More reliance on African labor

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