2.2: An English Settlement at Jamestown

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MATES US History 1, Holland 2024

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joint-stock companies

funders of English colonies; investors pooled money together

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Jamestown

2nd American settlement, named after King James I

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John Smith

seized control of Jamestown → saved the colony

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Powhatan

local tribe that fought with the English

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headright system

could pay way to Virginia and receive 50 acres of land

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indentured servants

limited term of servitude (4-7 years) in exchange for passage

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Royal Colony

colony under direct rule of the king

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House of Burgesses

1st representative body in colonial America (only rich, white men)

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Nathaniel Bacon

  • wealthy Englishman

  • raised an army to fight NA’s → illegal

  • marched upon Jamestown with rebels (lack of representation)

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