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Period: to
Founding of the first colonies
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Founding of Jamestown
1907
Tobacco crop-HUGE EXPORT $$$
Indentured slaves
"high class" people sitting above tons of servants and peaasents -
Tobacco Crop
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Headwright System
offered land in trade for people -
The House of Burgesses
the first
representative assembly in
America, meets for the first time
in Virginia. The first African
slaves are brought to Jamestown -
First shipment of African Slaves
indentured slaves -
First town government in the colonies
Dorchester, Massachusetts -
5-4 amendment
Extended to corporations for the first time full rights to spend money as the wish in candidate elections-federal, state, and local.