Apush Chaper 2 Notes
The Early Chesapeake
• The founding of Jamestown:
-1607 Established their colony, named Jamestown
-London company promoters had no desire of a family-centered community, there were no women in Jamestown
-Captain John smith became council president in fall of 1608, later on smith left
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• Reorganization
-1609 the London company was changed to The Virginia company. From the king they got more power over the colony and also more land.
-Winter of 1609-1610 became known as the “starving Time”
Europeans where forced to eat dogs, cats ,rats ,snakes, Toadstool, horsehinds , and corpses of dead men.
-just when Jamestown was almost extinct Lord De La Warr became the first governor. His strict leadership got Jamestown back on its feet.
-Jamestown expanded when colonist discovered the marketable crop tobacco.
• Tobacco
-many people where against using and selling tobacco.
-Tobacco spread through Jamestown
-the Tobacco Cultivation Created pressure for territorial expansion.
-English farmers start to used so called native land
-In 1612 The Jamestown planter John Rolfe produced the high quality tobacco.
• Expansion
-Tobacco wasn’t enough to help the Virginia Company 1616 there was no profits.
-1618 “The Headright System” the Virginia company established this trying to recruit new settlers and workers to the colony profitable. They were fifty-acre grants, new settlers got fifty acres of land.
-in 1619 they brought 100 Englishwomen/ ironworkers and other skilled crafts men to Virginia to become wives of their colonist. The women would be sold for 120 pounds of tobacco.
-July, 30,1619, in Jamestown church , delegates for different community met as the House of Burgesses. The first meeting of an elected legislature, a representative assembly, within what was to become The United states.
-The first step to the enslavement of Africans within what was to be the American republic was in 1619.
- Thomas Dale assaulted Powhatan Indians by kidnaping the chiefs
• The founding of Jamestown:
-1607 Established their colony, named Jamestown
-London company promoters had no desire of a family-centered community, there were no women in Jamestown
-Captain John smith became council president in fall of 1608, later on smith left
-
• Reorganization
-1609 the London company was changed to The Virginia company. From the king they got more power over the colony and also more land.
-Winter of 1609-1610 became known as the “starving Time”
Europeans where forced to eat dogs, cats ,rats ,snakes, Toadstool, horsehinds , and corpses of dead men.
-just when Jamestown was almost extinct Lord De La Warr became the first governor. His strict leadership got Jamestown back on its feet.
-Jamestown expanded when colonist discovered the marketable crop tobacco.
• Tobacco
-many people where against using and selling tobacco.
-Tobacco spread through Jamestown
-the Tobacco Cultivation Created pressure for territorial expansion.
-English farmers start to used so called native land
-In 1612 The Jamestown planter John Rolfe produced the high quality tobacco.
• Expansion
-Tobacco wasn’t enough to help the Virginia Company 1616 there was no profits.
-1618 “The Headright System” the Virginia company established this trying to recruit new settlers and workers to the colony profitable. They were fifty-acre grants, new settlers got fifty acres of land.
-in 1619 they brought 100 Englishwomen/ ironworkers and other skilled crafts men to Virginia to become wives of their colonist. The women would be sold for 120 pounds of tobacco.
-July, 30,1619, in Jamestown church , delegates for different community met as the House of Burgesses. The first meeting of an elected legislature, a representative assembly, within what was to become The United states.
-The first step to the enslavement of Africans within what was to be the American republic was in 1619.
- Thomas Dale assaulted Powhatan Indians by kidnaping the chiefs