Wealth Importance towards Colonization

  • Jamestown

    First successful settlment. Their mainmotivation was to find gold
  • Women

    Later that year 90 women were dropped off and that showed that Jamestown was there to stay. The men had to pay to make the women their wifes with tobacco which was the main source of wealth in Jamestown.
  • Slaves

    20 African americans were dropped off from a ducth ship and used as slaves in Jamestown
  • Headcount/Headright

    People started to be sent over. They would be wiling to cross th Atlantic and try to start populating jamestown in return for land.
  • Slaves

    If the slaves assigned to farmers in 1919 were still alive they were paid and given freedom to try and start living on their own
  • Massachusets Bay

    Settlements were made in search pf wealth from the new world
  • Citezens united

    Citezens United brought forward the idea of money in polotics