Chapter 3: The southern colonies in the seventeenth century
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-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?…