Jamestown & the Chesapeake

Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

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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