2022-09-13 Flashcards
When did the English arrive in Chesapeake Bay and find 24,000 Native Americans there?
1607
How did the English view the native people?
With disdain
What killed many of the Native Americans who tried to help the colonists?
Disease
What diseases were particularly hard on the Native Americans?
Smallpox and measles
Why did they die from these diseases?
They had no natural immunity
Why could they no longer resist the colonists?
Their population dwindled a lot
The economic genius behind the Virginia Company
John Rolfe
Who developed the tobacco industry thus giving the colony a viable economic future?
John Rolfe
What are the three kinds of labor sources they tried?
Natives, Indentured Servants, and African Slaves
What did the Virginia Company have to show for seventeen hundred people and 50,000 dollars in Chesapeake bay?
350 hungry diseased colonists
What system said that every settler who paid his own way received fifty acres and an extra fifty acres for every servant or relative he brought to Chesapeake Bay?
Headright system
How much did the tobacco sell for compared to the cost of production?
five to ten times
