1. Ch 2/ Sect 2: English Settlement at Jamestown

2. Joint-Stock Company
too expensive for one to finance colony
stock sold to investors  money pooled
- share profit or divide losses
investors = nobles and religious dissenters
charter (contract) granted by monarch to establish a colony
earliest ones failed (Roanoke the 1st)

4. Jamestown Settlement (in Virginia)
1607: Jamestown colony settled by Englishmen
must generate wealth or lose financial support
spent most of time searching for gold  little time farming
- food supplies decrease
- malaria
- harsh winter
after first year, 38 of original survived

5. “Work or Starve”
John Smith (leader) strict discipline on colonists
- must farm 4 hours/day
= “Starving Time”
- Smith back to England (gunpowder burn)
- supply ship sank
King takes control of colony from investors

6. Tobacco Trade
start growing tobacco  export to England
labor force grew
- indentured servants = free voyage if work for 4 to 7 years
- headright system = 50 acres of land for every inhabitant brought
Jamestown thrived

7. Powhatans (Native Am tribe)
at first helped colonists
during “starving time” colonists raided NA food supply
- responded by attack
cultural differences
- colonists believed in land ownership
- NA land owned by all, not individuals
brutal fighting ended in 1645

8. The Virginia House of Burgesses
expected same rights as in England  raising own representative assemblies
VA H of B = first popularly elected legislature in the colonies
- met once a year with local governor (overseer of colony)

9. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
poor, landless opposed wealthy
wanted to fight NAs for land and lower taxes  denied by governor
took control of H of B and burned Jamestown
governor hung colonists angering King
H of B passed law to prevent governors from ever assuming power  (1st step to end tyranny)