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The London Company, 1606 Get rich quick!

Jamestown Settlement, 1609

Chesapeake Bay Geographic/environmental problems??

Jamestown Fort & Settlement (Computer Generated)

Jamestown Housing

Jamestown Settlement

Jamestown Chapel, 1611

Captain John Smith: The Right Man for the Job?? There was no talk…but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold…

English Migration:

Jamestown Colonization Pattern:

River Settlement Pattern  Large plantations [>100 acres].  Widely spread apart [>5 miles]. Social/Economic PROBLEMS???

Why Was There Such High Mortality? POPULATION:  1607: 104 colonists  By spring, 1608: 38 survived  1609: 300 more immigrants  By spring, 1610: 60 survived  1610 – 1624: 10,000 immigrants  1624 population: 1,200  Adult life expectancy: 40 years  Death of children before age 5: 80%

WidowarchyWidowarchy High mortality among husbands and fathers left many women in the Chesapeake colonies with unusual autonomy and wealth!

John Rolfe What finally made the colony prosperous??

Tobacco Plant Virginia’s gold and silver. -- John Rolfe, 1612

Early Colonial Tobacco — Virginia produces 20,000 pounds of tobacco — Despite losing nearly one-third of its colonists in an Indian attack, Virginia produces 60,000 pounds of tobacco — Virginia produces 500,000 pounds of tobacco — Virginia produces 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco.

Tobacco Prices:

Indentured Servitude Headright System

Indentured Servitude Headright System:  Each Virginian got 50 acres for each person whose passage they paid Indenture Contract:  5-7 years.  Promised “freedom dues” [land, $]  Forbidden to marry.  : only 1 in 10 outlived their indentured contracts!

Chief Powhatan

PocahontasPocahontas A 1616 engraving

Powhatan Confederacy

Powhatan Indian Village

Indian Foods

Powhatan Uprising of 1622

Why was 1619 a pivotal year for the Chesapeake settlement?

Virginia House of Burgesses

17c Population in the Chesapeake

Population of Chesapeake Colonies:

Colonization of Maryland

George Calvert, Lord Baltimore

Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion: 1676 Nathaniel Bacon Governor William Berkeley

Bacon’s Rebellion: 1676

Governor Berkeley’s “Fault Line”