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
(read p. 80)
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