Early Colonization

• The first permanent English settlement was in Jamestown, Virginia in 1608

  • Failed to grow crops

  • Bullied the Native Americans for food

    • John Smith

    • John Rolfe

      • Introduced Tobacco farming

        • Allowed Jamestown to survive

          • Created conflict with Natives

• Joint Stock Company

  • Poor or unemployed went to Virginia for labor

  • Passage paid to return for labor

    • owned received 50 acres of land

  • profits went back to the stockholders

• Mercantilism

  • Nations plan to regulate and protect industry

  • The mother country wants more profit over experts

    • Colonies are exporting more than making a profit

  • Colonies supplied raw materials

    • Navigation Acts

      • Ordered colonies to only export goods to England

        • created a monopoly on cash crop goods

• Bacon’s Rebellion

  • Colonial disagreement over how best to protect against native attacks

    • Bacon burned Jamestown

    • Followers were executed without due process

      • Due process- a course of legal proceedings according to rules and principles that have been established in a system of jurisprudence for the enforcement and protection of private rights.

• More Toward African Slaves

  • death rate among servants decreased

  • Made owning slaves more cost effective than having servants

    • They owned children as well

Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy

• Spanish were getting vast riches and the English, Dutch, and French were very eager and jealous of their riches

  • tried to find ways of making their own riches     

• Religious conflict started to spread between the Catholics and Protestant Christians into the Americas