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Colonial Beginnings
Virginia
Maryland
Carolinas
Cause and Effect Chains:British Colonization in the New WorldEnglish Protestantism
Queen Elizabeth I
Spanish Success in the New World
Enclosures
Primogeniture
English Colonial Failures
Economic Depression
Joint Stock Company
Peace with Spain
Virginia - Jamestown Colony 1607
The Trading Post ModelThe Death Trap Syndrome
•Tidal River Explanation:Fecal pollutants
•Swamps: malaria•Summers were the dying time
•The Starving Time•Anglo Powhatan Wars
1610-141622
1644-46The 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•1627:500,000 lbsIndentured Servitude 3 Schemes 1612, 1616, 1624
Planter Indentured Servant Relationships
Planter• Negative incentives• Use of Force• Don’t work well
Positive incentives• Offered tools• shorter contracts• Very common and
effective
Indentured Servant• 7 Years• No incentive to work
hard
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)
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
Maryland
Catholic EliteAttempted manorial system
Tobacco as a cash crop
Backcountry farmers - ProtestantsGain political superiority
Restoration Colonies
CarolinasSouth CoastalWest Indies linkrice and indigoBarbados slave codeInland North:Virginia farmerstobacco