Jamestown & the Chesapeake BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH AMERICA,

 English Emigrants  Between , over half a million people left England  Economic problems  Overpopulation  Most of the English to North America were:  young, single men  lower ranks of English society  Three Colonial Regions:  Chesapeake  New England  Middle THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH

 Indentured Servants:  Most Englishmen arrived as indentured servants  voluntarily surrendered their freedom for a period of time (often five to seven years) in exchange for passage to America.  Similiarity to slavery:  Bought/ sold  Permission to marry  Difference:  Eventually would earn freedom THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH

 Englishmen and Indians  Wanted land  Acquired through treaties and or conflict  The Transformation of Indian Life  English destroyed Indian way of life  Ruined Indian crops THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH

 The Jamestown Colony  1607  First PERMANENT English Colony  Virginia Company  Major issues:  No leadership  High death rate  Few supplies from England  No farming experience  House of Burgess  1 st legislature in the English colonies in America  Same year, first Blacks arrive in Virginia SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE

 Powhatan and Pocahantas  Friendly at first  John Smith & Pochontas  The Uprising of 1622  Colonists retaliated for an Indian attack.  Afterwards, the English “held the balance of power” in Jamestown. SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE

 A Tobacco Colony  King James I  Va’s GOLD!  Taxes  High demand (30 Million pounds by 1680)  Increased demand for field labor  Women and the Family  Shortage of woman at first  Social conditions eventually opened new doors SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE