Jamestown Flashcards
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“Brown Gold”
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- tobacco: John Rolfe
- growing demand calls for laborers
- Headright System 1618: pay your own or another’s passage to VA and receive land grants
- indentured servants: limited term of servitude in exchange for passage to NA and food and shelter
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Disastrous Start
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- 1st permanent English settlement 1607
- pursuit of gold; not farmers
- contaminated river water: disease
- hunger
- John Smith allies w/ Powhatan
- influx of colonists: Powhatan destroys livestock and food supply: famine
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Joint-Stock Company
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Relies on investors to support a colony in hopes of making a profit
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Clash w/ NA
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- no intermarriage w/ English
- hungry for land
- Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
- violence: royal colony under the King
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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- governor Berkeley favors rich white plantation owners: no support for farmers/indentured servants on the outskirts facing NA
- Nathaniel Bacon raises army against NA 1676 deemed illegal
- rebellion 1676 lack of representation in House of Burgesses-so do not wished to be taxed!
- rebels subdued after Bacon’s death
