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Chapter 3: The southern colonies in the seventeenth century -- -Rapid population growth - 1580-1650 -3.5 -5 million Growth strains farming economy Completion drives up process Landless poor beginning wandering the roads Ruling classes sees this as a a threat
Social problems Poor population becomes mobile. Influx to Bristol , Liverpool, London Crowded unsanitary conditions in England Many die Many migrate to Ireland , Holland Big point people migrate to America for many reasons. Religious freedom escape from c/o/e desire for land Escape -jail marriage, debt English in the Chesapeake Original Goal =Trading posts First attempts= Nobile/ merchants ventures Different from Spanish / French Joint stock companies No personal liability More autonomy Huge Failure Jamestown settlement Merchant organized settlement 1607-104 sent crops , goods, and gold Land in swampy areas= not good No freshwater Did not plant crops Quickly die -38/104 left after 9 months Constant struggle to survive Cannibalism, desperation, horrible existence Many attempts to repopulate Death tolls stay high Disease and malnutrition land incentives to get continued migration Remains a struggling colony Indian War of 1622 Increased migration leads to problems w/natives Algonquin natives not happy Land hungry English and conversion attempts Oopechancanough attacks Kills 347 English, 1/3 of population English 10 years of warfare Massacres Sold pow's into captivity James 1=1 alarmed, revokes VA. Co. Charter Jamestown now a royal colony Tobacco saves Virginia John Rolfe Milder tobacco Tobacco=east to grow Sets of English tobacco book Tobacco , not trade saves VA Originally small farms After 1650- Wealthy create large estates Potential Problem? Indentured servants
Social problems Poor population becomes mobile. Influx to Bristol , Liverpool, London Crowded unsanitary conditions in England Many die Many migrate to Ireland , Holland Big point people migrate to America for many reasons. Religious freedom escape from c/o/e desire for land Escape -jail marriage, debt English in the Chesapeake Original Goal =Trading posts First attempts= Nobile/ merchants ventures Different from Spanish / French Joint stock companies No personal liability More autonomy Huge Failure Jamestown settlement Merchant organized settlement 1607-104 sent crops , goods, and gold Land in swampy areas= not good No freshwater Did not plant crops Quickly die -38/104 left after 9 months Constant struggle to survive Cannibalism, desperation, horrible existence Many attempts to repopulate Death tolls stay high Disease and malnutrition land incentives to get continued migration Remains a struggling colony Indian War of 1622 Increased migration leads to problems w/natives Algonquin natives not happy Land hungry English and conversion attempts Oopechancanough attacks Kills 347 English, 1/3 of population English 10 years of warfare Massacres Sold pow's into captivity James 1=1 alarmed, revokes VA. Co. Charter Jamestown now a royal colony Tobacco saves Virginia John Rolfe Milder tobacco Tobacco=east to grow Sets of English tobacco book Tobacco , not trade saves VA Originally small farms After 1650- Wealthy create large estates Potential Problem? Indentured servants