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Early VirginiaAP US History
Roanoke (1585)
John Smith
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.
