1. 1601-1700

2. Original drawing, 1585, village on the North Carolina coast

6.  Jamestown in 1607: 105  Jamestown in 1624:1,200

7. A. The Fragile Jamestown Settlement 1. Virginia Company 2. Jamestown 3. Powhatan and the Algonquian Indians B. Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers 1. Mutual distrust 2. Trade relationship between English and Indians 3. Difficulties for Powhatan’s chiefdom

8. JOHN SMITHPOCAHONTAS IN ENGLAND

9. The King revoked the charter of the Virginia Company and made it a royal colony

10.  The demise of the Virginia Company marked the end of the first phase of colonization of the Chesapeake region  The King now appointed the governor  The legislative body, the House of Burgesses, remained intact

11.  Coastal area along the edges of the Chesapeake Bay

13.  Tobacco Agriculture turned Virginia into a colony of planters  Men could earn two to three times as much growing tobacco as working in England  New settlers who paid their own way were given a headright—fifty acres of free land

15.  80 % of those who came in the first half of the century, came as indentured servants  75% of indentured servants were men  The labor contract was called the ‘indenture’  The immigrant borrowed the cost of passage from a sea captain, and in return agreed to work as a servant for four to seven years

16.  The sea captain sold the indenture to a tobacco grower  Punishment for petty crimes extended the servitude  Planters made a lot of money, regaining their original investment within one year

17.  Female servants could not marry while indentured  Women who became pregnant had to serve two extra years  Interracial sex was outlawed  Servants of all races co-mingled and were of the same class