Government: Who is in charge and how do they lead?

Economics: How are they going to make money or get the things they need to survive?

Community: Who are the members of the community? What types of laws should govern a community? What should members of the community contribute?

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1606- James I gives a land grant to the Virginia Company◦ Joint-stock company

Land grant extends from 45° North Latitude to 35° South Latitude

Two branches of the Joint Stock Company Bristol Branch London Branch (1607)

◦ 5 goals Economics: make money to send back to London Find a North-West passage to Asia Patriotism Outpost against Spain Missionary Activities

April 1607 Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery reach Cape Henry◦ Home of Chesapeake

Indians May 14th 1607 find

spot on James River◦ Name it Jamestown

Puts some men to work He takes 21 men on a

“peace mission” Learns that Chief

Powhatan rules all area above Jamestown

Plants and cross, tries to make nice,

Returns to an attacked fort

Supply Ships arrive Out of the 140 men who arrived only 40 remain John Smith arrives 7-8 die during winter

3 planting seasons later500 people in the colony

StarvingResort to cannibalism60 of 500 survive

Still not growing corn

Lord De La Warr and the “Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall”

Force the colony to work

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Summer 1610 Accuse Chief

Powhatan of hiding runaways

George Perry sent to take revenge on Paspeheans & Chickahominies

Kills 15-16 natives including queen and children

Burn homes and crops

1612 Natives are killing colonists

March 1612 Colony and

Company not making $$

1613-1614 John Rolfe saves

colony with Tobacco

1617 Begin Head right system:

Pay your own way get 50 acres of land

bring anyone else get an additional 50 acres

Bring Indentured Servants

Indentured Servants

Agree to work for 7 years to get a passage to new world

1619 1st Africans arrive

1619 House of Burgesses

1st representative assembly in the colonies

1622- Powhatan attacks

¼ of settlement gone

James I turns Virginia into a Royal Colony

Dissolves the House of Burgesses

Appoints his own people to run things

1639- Charles I reforms the House of Burgesses