Wealth influences on Colonization

By Matt Goorsky

  • First successful coloney in Jamestown, Virgina

  • Starving time

  • Headright System was created to bring more colonist over

  • First shipment of slaves came over

  • Tabacco became popular

  • Virgina was producing 200,000lbs of Tabacco per year

  • King James hated Tabacco

    He hated Tabacco but it gave him good business and made him rich

  • By the 1680 Virgina produce 30 mil of Tabacco p/y

  • Olympian fellowship banquet of American's wealthiest men

  • Carnegie Corporation

  • Great Depression