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Jamestown or Virginia

             Jamestown or Virginia was formed due to a colonization order by King James I.
             Virginia company brought the first settlers to the New World which mostly consisted of unskilled young men who wanted to acquire wealth and go back to England. They had arrived late in the year for agriculture as a result of which, two third of them died and others survived by stealing from the natives and eating human meat. Jamestown frequently looked deserted with practically no law and order and community life. More settlers with families kept pouring in but their population was kept in check by yellow fever, malaria and typhoid. The Virginia colony grew rich as they started growing tobacco with the help of indentured laborers. It was the first colony to form any kind of government (House of Burgesses).
             Maryland was formed on the basis of religion. King Charles did not want to be bothered by the Catholics and thus he provided them with a colony to get rid of them. These settlers unlike the ones in the Virginia colony, came with the intention of staying. They did not make the mistakes the Virginian's made instead they bought land from the natives and started growing food and tobacco. .
             2. From 1630 to 1776 major economic changes took place in Jamestown. Tobacco became the resource worth investing. Lands were allotted and tobacco production dramatically expanded with the help of indentured laborers and slaves. Slave trade was a key factor in pushing up the economic status of the Chesapeake region. .
             The representative government in Virginia mostly represented people along the coast and not the people in back country. The settlers in back country needed transportation and protection from Indians but the government was of no help. The settlers started forming armed groups and solving their own problems. Nathaniel Bacon headed such a group and was responsible for indiscriminately murdering natives.
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            


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1. Jamestown and the Virginia Company

In 1607 the Virginia Company sponsored the voyage which carried 104 colonists from England to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. All 104 colonists that made the trip from England to Virginia were men. Although their original goal in coming to Virginia was to search for gold and find other natural resources their site would come to be known as Jamestown, the widely regarded first permanent English settlement in America. ... Once Jamestown was successfully established as a permanent and constantly expanding colony Virginia's new economic venture became tobacco. ... Single females that lived in J...

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2. History of Jamestown

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3. Virginia

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4. The Jamestown Settlement

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5. Colonial Virginia

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6. Jamestown And Plymouth

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7. virginia

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8. Jamestown

In 1606, a joint-stock company called the Virginia Company of London was formed in order to find gold in the New World and was also formed to find a passage through America to the Indies. The Virginia Company set sail for America in 1606 with three ships. ... On May 24th, 1607 the English settlers named their land Jamestown. ... With all that the English settlers have learned, they applied everything to building the plantation colonies, which consisted of, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. With experience being the best teacher, the settlers learned form their experi...

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9. Lesson 1

Jamestown, Virginia is considered as the first, still existing, settlement made by the Europeans in America. The colonists from Jamestown, like the men of many other firsts, had hardships even before they arrived in America. ... This made the men at Jamestown homesick and lacking of good home life. ... With very few true laborers at Jamestown, little was ever done and when accomplished it was poorly done. ... Eventually, in 1609, his enemies who wished not to labor drove Smith out of Jamestown. ...

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