2. Colonial Development The Chesapeake

3. Chesapeake Colonies  Dominated by a plantation economic system  Slavery & indentured servitude in all colonies (Africans after late 17 th C)  A privileged few control large quantity of lands (aristocratic)  Church of England (Anglican) most prominent…religiously tolerant region  Expansion views came from need for more land

4. Jamestown Fort & Settlement (Computer Generated)

5. Jamestown Housing

6. Tobacco Economy  Workers were mostly white indentured servants until late 1600’s, then Africans  Headright System: 50 acres of land to any person who pays the passage of a white indentured servant  Planters used the system to gain huge tracts of land & workers!  By 1700, 100,000 indentured servants came over (~75% of all Europeans in Virginia and Maryland)

7. Jamestown Colonization Pattern: 1620-1660

8. Tobacco Plant

9. Bacon’s Rebellion

10.  Former indentured servants (Freedmen) frustrated at lack of available good lands in eastern Va.  Forced to squat in western part of colony, near/on Native American lands  Native Americans didn’t like the expansion into their lands  Freedmen mad that their gov’t wasn’t doing anything to protect them  Freedmen become organized into a militia led by Nathaniel Bacon

11. Bacon’s Rebellion  Significance: Planters (elite) saw indentured servants as too difficult to control as Freedmen…..so they imported more Africans instead  Significance: Planters (elite) controlled the poor whites psychologically by telling them they were better than blacks  ??Long term consequences of this??