The Early Chesapeake

How did tobacco lead to conflict with Native Americans?

Why did the Headright System benefit the wealthy?

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 Jamestown:

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  1607, first permanent English settlement
  
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  colony: group of individuals shared in profits and losses of colony
  
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  “Starving Time”: Winter 1609 – 1610, fevers, deaths, etc.
  
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  John Smith: helped save colony from starvation
  

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  Introduced by John Rolfe, hated by King James I
  
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  Made $ for colonists, exhausted land, led to expansion, conflict with Natives
  

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  Headright System:
  

 New settlers received 50 acres of land

 If someone paid the passage of an immigrant, the

would receive 50 acres (encouraged indentured servants)

 1619: 2 Important Events

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  House of – elected representatives in VA
  
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  1^st group of Africans arrive in “America”
  

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  confederacy – no longer a threat by 1644
  

 Maryland:

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  Founded by the second Lord Baltimore
  
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  Fared better than early Virginians did
  
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  – Freedom of worship to all Christians
  

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  Gov. Berkeley did not allow settlement past a line
  
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  In the “ ” many famers were underrepresented in the House of Burgesses
  
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  Conflict between and “westerners” like Bacon
  
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  Bacon almost took control, died suddenly
  
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  Significance?
  

 Shows tensions between

Why was the Mayflower Compact an important step for future governing documents?

Why could Anne Hutchinson be seen as more of a threat than Roger Williams?