Major Problems in American History: to 1877
Major Problems in American History Volume I: to 1877; 3rd ed.
Chapter 2: The Southern Colonies in British America
Introduction
* April 26, 1907 – group of ships bearing 128 men sailed into the Chesapeake Bay; began the settlement of Jamestown --►first successful plantation in the Americas * English had attempted to establish colonies in locations as varied as present-day Maine and Virginia --►but all had failed * Colony’s early years were horrific * Colonists were more interested in finding precious metals than feeding themselves * They encountered a variety of new diseases in the swampland in Jamestown * Many were gentlemen who felt it below their stations to clear fields or build stockades (barriers) * Nine months after their arrival only 138 of the English adventurers were alive * Developments led Jamestown out of its privation (lack of necessities) * Several more years of starvation and disease. * 1611 - Colonists began planting West Indian tobacco * Within 2 decades tobacco exports grew to 1.5 million pounds; tobacco was a demanding crop. * Rapidly depleted the soil which increased the demand for land, and required intensive labor
--►which led to the importation of unfree workers * Colonists and indentured servants increasingly looked to the lands controlled by the Indians
--►resulted in a conflict between two groups--►was the basis of the demands in Bacon’s Rebellion - uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a planter named Nathaniel Bacon; thousand Virginians rose (including former indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks) because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans * In the early years European indentured servants were laborers, later replaced by African slaves * Increase in slave population; 1690 – Chesapeake area contained more African slaves than European servants * Series of other
Chapter 2: The Southern Colonies in British America
Introduction
* April 26, 1907 – group of ships bearing 128 men sailed into the Chesapeake Bay; began the settlement of Jamestown --►first successful plantation in the Americas * English had attempted to establish colonies in locations as varied as present-day Maine and Virginia --►but all had failed * Colony’s early years were horrific * Colonists were more interested in finding precious metals than feeding themselves * They encountered a variety of new diseases in the swampland in Jamestown * Many were gentlemen who felt it below their stations to clear fields or build stockades (barriers) * Nine months after their arrival only 138 of the English adventurers were alive * Developments led Jamestown out of its privation (lack of necessities) * Several more years of starvation and disease. * 1611 - Colonists began planting West Indian tobacco * Within 2 decades tobacco exports grew to 1.5 million pounds; tobacco was a demanding crop. * Rapidly depleted the soil which increased the demand for land, and required intensive labor
--►which led to the importation of unfree workers * Colonists and indentured servants increasingly looked to the lands controlled by the Indians
--►resulted in a conflict between two groups--►was the basis of the demands in Bacon’s Rebellion - uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a planter named Nathaniel Bacon; thousand Virginians rose (including former indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks) because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans * In the early years European indentured servants were laborers, later replaced by African slaves * Increase in slave population; 1690 – Chesapeake area contained more African slaves than European servants * Series of other