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Virginia Company Gets Charter from King James 1
-The company wanted territory on Eastern Shores of North America where Sir Walter Raleigh explored.
- They got financial support by asking for small investments -
Jamestown Founded
-Susan Constant, Discovery and Godspeed reached the shores of Virginia
-went inland on river and got to a peninsula (claimed the land as theirs)
-Founded Jamestown near the James River -
The Starving Time
-John Smith predicted disaster
-Disease in river water and Hunger
-people weren't used to working or clearing fields, planting
-Smith took control and got nearby Powhatan to help
-1609 600 colonists come for new life
-Powhatan threatened to kill colonists livestock and destroy farms
- The following winter Jamestown deteriorated until famine -
Invention of Brown Gold
-1612, colonist John Rolfe mixed Brazil tobacco with Native American Weed
-by late 1620s colonists export more than 1.5 million lbs of this tobacco
-Issue: they needed lots of laborers. (Tobacco production used a great number of field laborers.) -
Headright System Introduced
- anyone who paid for their or another settlement got 50 acres of land
- many owners imported indentured servants -they got food, shelter and voyage and only had to work from around 4-7 years
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Plymouth Colony Founded (by Separatists)
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Dutch granted Dutch West Indie company to colonize New NEtherland
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Chief Opechancanough raid on Jamestown
- Jamestown leader remembered hostility of Powhatan during starving time demanded tribute of corn and labor pocohantas and john rolfe married briefly making peace this chief launches raid on J town killing 340 virginia co sent its troops and supplies and they went bankrupt james I was disgusted and revoked charter to royal colony by 1644 the powhatan population was decreasing
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Dutch founded New amsterdam (NYC)
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Massachussetts Bay Colony Developed ( a year after charter)
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King Charles I charter to George Clavert--Maryland
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Charles II got land bywn virginia and Spanish florida to form North and South Carolina
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Roger Williams Flees Massachusetts to create providence
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Pequot War
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Anne Hutchinson Banished from Massachusetts
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Dutch get New Sweden
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Duke of York kicks Dutch out of New Netherland
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Tensions arise between indentured Servants and the Wealthy
- Governor Sir William Berkley increased taxes for poor settlers
- profit goes to wealthy plantation farmers or to protect gov't positions -clashes between Western settlers and natives are increasing
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King Phillip's War
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Charter for Penn to go to Pennyslvania
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James Ogelthrope got colony for Georgia