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James Town was the first successful English colony which existed to make money from its investers.
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After a gruesome winter in 1610 the number of colonists in Jamestown dropped to sixty-five.
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In 1618 the Virgina company hit upon a recruiting strategy called the Virgina headright System which offered fifty acres for each person that a settler paid to bring over.
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In 1619 the first shipment of African slaves reached Virginia.
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By 1624 Virginia was producing 200,00 pounds of tabcco a year.
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By the 1680's more than 30 million pounds of tabacco was sold to the colonists.
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The Taft Commission sought to educate Filipinos in the American style.
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The wolrds wealthiest man that are gathered
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A group of wealth men that sit around talking about stuff
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Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan chat in court during the Scopes Trial.
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Men waiting in line for work