Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY The Settlement of the Chesapeake The Settlement of the Chesapeake
The London Company, 1606
Jamestown Settlement, 1609
Chesapeake Bay
Jamestown Settlement
Jamestown Housing
Jamestown Chapel, 1611
Jamestown Fort, 1609
Jamestown Settlement (Computer Generated)
Captain John Smith
English Migration: Headright System
Jamestown Colonization Pattern:
John Rolfe
Tobacco Plant
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
Chief Powhatan
PocahontasPocahontas
Powhatan Confederacy
Powhatan Indian Village
Indian Foods
1622 Indian Uprisings
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
Governor Berkeley’s “Fault Line”