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The Virginia Company was a joint stock company approved by king James I to create new settlements in Virginia. (A joint stock company is a business organization with which investors pooled money in order to purchase stock in a company)
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Indentured servants are servants that are forced into slavery. Indentured servants were servants that were supposed to attract workers.
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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement. It was located on the east side of the James river. And was named after their king, king James I.
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John Rolfe arrived in Jamestown and immediately started experimenting with growing tobacco. He then sold it and it became the first cash crop in Jamestown.
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Squanto was kidnapped by English explorer Thomas Hunt. Thomas Hunt took him back to Spain and sold him. He was among other captives brought by local monks.
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The house of burgesses was the first legislative assembly in the 13 colonies.
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The Pilgrims were a group of separatists trying to escape religious freedom. So, they set sail on the Mayflower. And landed in Plymouth. Then they set up a colony called Jamestown and then Jamestown because the first permanent colony in Virginia.
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The Mayflower compact was a compact signed among the pilgrims. But women and children were not allowed to sign.
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The first Thanksgiving was a celebration between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag. They ate a meal the consisted of waterfowl, venison, ham, lobster, clams, berries, fruit, pumpkin, and squash.
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John Winthrop and 1,000 others sailed to North America. John Winthrop was the governor of the puritans.
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It was taken over by the puritans and they established a religious community in the new world.
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Benjamin Franklin established the first fire company. the 13 colonies didn't have fire company's until the civil war.
