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| *Virginia: purpose, problems, failures, successes |
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Purpose: Virginia Company, owned by stockholders, expect profits from colonists, find gold and other natural resources.
Fail: Most colonists were "gentlemen", they were ignorant of skills needed to survive there, and refused to work.
Success: Tobacco |
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| 1584 - Established first English settlement in Roanoke Island, North Carolina, colony vanished, mystery. |
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| Partnership between two or more peoples, with stocks to be given to those that make financial contributions. |
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| Anyone who pays for trip to Virginia could have 50 acres land, and 50 more per head they bring with them. |
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| Leader of the struggling Virginia colony, experienced fighter/war vet. |
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| Experimented with diff tobacco crops, to create a sweeter tasting Virginia tobacco plant, main crop for Virginia. Also married Pocahontas daughter of Powhatan, helps relations. |
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| 1619 - Dutch warship comes with 20 African slaves to Jamestown. |
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| First representative assembly of Virginia. |
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| Thirty Alqonquian-speaking tribes in eastern virginia were being led by leader Powhatan. |
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| Support the King, against Parliamentarians. |
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| Georgia: reasons, successes |
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| A prisoner buffer colony from Spanish. |
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| Founder of Georgia colony, very strict rules, loses his position as gov because of this. |
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| 1665 - Charles II gives this land to supporters to pay debt. Carolinas has headrights, representative govt, South = rich off sugar isles, North = poor, farmers. |
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| John Locke, Fundamental Constitution |
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| Locke was a British political theorist who wrote the Fundamental Constitution for the Carolinas colony, but it was never put into effect. The constitution would have set up a feudalistic government headed by an aristocracy which owned most of the land. |
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| 1690 - First permanent settlement in Carolinas, most of population were French protestants. |
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| Staple crops in the South |
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| Tobacco. Rice in Georgia, and South Carolina. |
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| Powhatan's brother, killed 350 colonists, upset at land grubbing English. |
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| Poisons Indian leaders at a truce agreement, after they attack colonists. |
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| People dropped like flies. Average life expectancy was low, and disease was common in the humid, Southern swamps. Fresh meat had to brought over constantly, as there were hardly any women there. |
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