Wealth

By Brooke.boxrud17
  • Period: to

    Founding of the first colonies

  • Founding of Jamestown

    1907
    Tobacco crop-HUGE EXPORT $$$
    Indentured slaves
    "high class" people sitting above tons of servants and peaasents

  • Tobacco Crop

  • 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.