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An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay

An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay. 1601-1700. Secotan. Original drawing, 1585, village on the North Carolina coast. Population. Jamestown in 1607: 105 Jamestown in 1624: 1,200. An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay. A. The Fragile Jamestown Settlement 1 . Virginia Company

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An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay

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  1. An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay 1601-1700

  2. Secotan Original drawing, 1585, village on the North Carolina coast

  3. Population Jamestown in 1607: 105 Jamestown in 1624: 1,200

  4. An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay A. The Fragile Jamestown Settlement 1. Virginia Company 2. Jamestown 3. Powhatan and the Algonquian Indians B. Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers 1. Mutual distrust 2. Trade relationship between English and Indians 3. Difficulties for Powhatan’s chiefdom

  5. Pocahontas, Mrs. John Rolfe John Smith PocaHontas in England

  6. King James I The King revoked the charter of the Virginia Company and made it a royal colony

  7. From Virginia Company to Virginia Colony The demise of the Virginia Company marked the end of the first phase of colonization of the Chesapeake region The King now appointed the governor The legislative body, the House of Burgesses, remained intact

  8. The Chesapeake Coastal area along the edges of the Chesapeake Bay

  9. A Tobacco Society Tobacco Agriculture turned Virginia into a colony of planters Men could earn two to three times as much growing tobacco as working in England New settlers who paid their own way were given a headright—fifty acres of free land

  10. Indentured Servants 80 % of those who came in the first half of the century, came as indentured servants 75% of indentured servants were men The labor contract was called the ‘indenture’ The immigrant borrowed the cost of passage from a sea captain, and in return agreed to work as a servant for four to seven years

  11. The sea captain sold the indenture to a tobacco grower Punishment for petty crimes extended the servitude Planters made a lot of money, regaining their original investment within one year

  12. Restrictions Female servants could not marry while indentured Women who became pregnant had to serve two extra years Interracial sex was outlawed Servants of all races co-mingled and were of the same class

  13. Tobacco growing

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