How did tobacco lead to conflict with Native Americans?
Why did the Headright System benefit the wealthy?
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The Early Chesapeake
What is the Chesapeake?
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Jamestown:
1607, first permanent English settlement
colony: group of individuals shared in profits and losses of colony
“Starving Time”: Winter 1609 – 1610, fevers, deaths, etc.
John Smith: helped save colony from starvation
Tobacco:
Expansion:
acres of land
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
Conflict with Natives:
confederacy – no longer a threat by 1644
Maryland:
Bacon’s Rebellion (Virginia – 1676)
Gov. Berkeley did not allow settlement past a line
In the “ ” many famers were underrepresented in the House of Burgesses
Conflict between and “westerners” like Bacon
Bacon almost took control, died suddenly
Significance?
Movement towards for labor
Shows tensions between
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