Early virginia

Early VirginiaAP US History

Roanoke (1585)

John Smith

Pocahontas

HEADRIGHT SYSTEM: a grant of land for settling in VA

INDENTURED SERVITUDE: a contract in which a poor Englishman/woman agreed to work for a colonist (who paid their passage to Virginia) for a period of 4-7 years

The colonist received the indentured servant’s headright of 50 acres

Freedom dues: the land, seed and tools given to an indentured servant after they completed their service

Scots-Irish

Indian Massacre of 1622

“Seasoning”

Diseases spread rapidly in the heat of the Virginia summer. Those did not die of sickness were said to have survived the “seasoning” time

Common diseases were•Yellow fever•Smallpox•Measles•Plague•Malaria

House of Burgesses (1619)

Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore

Maryland

“The Chesapeake” = VA + MA

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

Causes:• ↓ Tobacco prices• ↑ cost of manufactured goods• Poor weather• English-Dutch war

Events:• Bacon attacked friendly Native

Americans with popular support.• Gov. Berkeley went after Bacon• Bacon and his mob attack the capital,

Jamestown and eventually burn it • Gov. Berkeley regains control• Bacon dies of disease and his

followers are hanged.