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Jamestown Founded
Came over to find both jewels and gold. Hope was to find gold in the chesapeak -
Period: to
.Colonial To Present Time
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Slaves
12 years after founding Jamestown the first shipment of African Slaves arrived -
Maryland
Founded in 1632 Maryland was the second chesapeak colony -
Tobacco
Found Tobacco instead of gold making them rich. In 1642 Virgina was producing more than 200,000 pounds of tobacco per year -
Citizens United Court Decision
People protest the citizens united court descision because they belived that is one could donate money, the country would turn into a place where if people had money or were wealthy would have power -
Citizens United/FEC
In the citizens united court case and the FEC. The court ruled to get rid of the limit to how much a person can donate to a political campaign.