Colonial Beginnings

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Colonial Beginnings

• Virginia
• Maryland
• Carolinas

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Cause and Effect Chains British Colonization in
the New World
English Protestantism
Queen Elizabeth I
Spanish Success in the New World
English Colonial Failures
Enclosures
Primogeniture
Economic Depression
Joint Stock Company Peace with Spain
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Virginia - Jamestown Colony 1607

• The Trading Post Model
• The Death Trap Syndrome
• Tidal River Explanation
• Fecal pollutants
• Swamps malaria
• Summers were the dying time
• The Starving Time
• Anglo Powhatan Wars
• 1610-14
• 1622
• 1644-46
• The Survivor Show Model
• 1500 of 8000 by 1624

• The Economic Problems
• Younger Son Syndrome
• Early economic thrust
• Tobacco
• John Rolfe, Santo Domingo
• Output
• 1618-30,000 lbs
• 1627500,000 lbs
• Indentured Servitude 3 Schemes
• 1612, 1616, 1624

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Planter Indentured Servant Relationships

• Planter
• Negative incentives
• Use of Force
• Dont work well
• Positive incentives
• Offered tools
• shorter contracts
• Very common and effective

• Indentured Servant
• 7 Years
• No incentive to work hard

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1619 the Year of Change

• The Virginia government model established
• The Virginia House of Burgesses - 1st American
  Representative government
• Colonial permanency
• Boat load of women arrive -
• Changing labor scheme
• Shipment of Africans (Dutch traders)

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Virginia Social, Political, and Economic Evolution

• Virginians shared a low quality
• of life prior to 1642
• 1642 8,000 residents
• Enter Sir William Berkeley
• 1675- 40,000

• Cavalier migration
• Royalist immigrants
• Many servant-immigrants
• ages 15-24

During this period a ruling elite evolved from
the Royalist families who controlled Virginia
government
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Restoration Colonies
Maryland
Carolinas South Coastal West Indies link rice and
indigo Barbados slave code Inland North Virginia
farmers tobacco
Catholic Elite Attempted manorial system
Tobacco as a cash crop
Backcountry farmers - Protestants Gain political
superiority