Wealth Influences on Colonization

  • Jamestown Virginia

    First successful colony; However, half the colonists died because they disliked farming so much that they said they'd rather die than work in the fields.
  • Indentured Serventa first arrived

    at the colonly of Jamestown. These servents were given the oppertunity of freedom after 7 years.
  • Head Right System

    A Virginia company started a recruiting strategy that offered 50 acres of land for those who pay to bring a settler over
  • First Shipment of African arrived in Virginia

    were at first endentured slaves with oppertuniry of freedom until first slave laws were passed in 1651
  • Virginia Producing 200,000 lbs of Tobacco annually

    cash crop
  • Endentured servants became slaves with new slave laws

  • Virginia Producing 30 million lbs of Tobacco per year

  • Court tried to limit use of tax-funded assistance

    the Court attempted for about fifteen years to draw increasingly sharp lines against the use of tax-funded assistance for the religious aspects of education.
  • attempted to restrict individual donation

    FEC Federal Election Commission attempted to restrict individual donations to 1000$ and PAC donations to 5000