The Chesapeake Colonies

The Virginia Company settles & is named what

Jamestown

Plans for Virginia Company/Jamestown

1. Hire employees 15-22 years of age

2. No single women

3. Transit Population

4. No government

What was Jamestowns death rate in the first 10 years of being settled?

80%

Why was the death rate so high for Jamestown in the first 10 years of settlement

The food, shelters, and gold miners were of no success.

Who does the Virginia Company hire to run Jamestown

John Smith

How well of a leader was John Smith

he led Jamestown very well and there were no deaths in the year they were there (other than who he killed himself)

What happened to John Smith

The people of Jamestown attempted to assassinate him. The attempt was not successful but he left Jamestown after the incident

Who launches attacks on Jamestown after John Smith leaves

Powhatan

How does this attack affect the people of Jamestown

This attack ruins their crops & livestock creating the “Starving Time” for Jamestown

Who is Pocahontas

Powhatans daughter who falls in love with John Rolfe (a colonist)

What happens to Pocahontas

John Rolfe takes to her England where she passes way from an upper respiratory infection

Upon John Rolfes return to Jamestown how does he save the colony?

By planting tobacco

Who is the Virginia Company s treasurer

Edwin Sandy

What business effort does Edwin Sandy introduce

Head-Right System

What was the Head-Right System

1. Indentured Servants

2. Quitrents

3. Bringing single women

4. Representative Assembly

What else did the Head-Right System ensure landwise

Everyone who had been in Jamestown up until this point gets 100 acres of land. People who are coming in after get 50 acres of land per person you bring

What was the Representative Assembly

Virginia House of Burgesses

What were the requirements to be accepted into the Virginia House of Burgesses

White male landowner

Colonies without slavery in 1619

Pennsylvania & Massachusetts

Who founded Maryland

Cecilius Calvert

Why was Maryland created

Refuge for Catholics

How were Catholics treated poorly in England

Being taxed more, no education, payed less

What was the first settlement in Maryland called

St. Mary

What beliefs were the England

Protestant

What was the main issue for the settlement of Maryland

Catholics could not come over because they could not afford it

What was Marylands economy

Tobacco

What is the Act for Religious Toleration

Cannot persecute anyone for their religious beliefs