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    The Early Chesapeake • The founding of Jamestown: -1607 Established their colony‚ named Jamestown -London company promoters had no desire of a family-centered community‚ there were no women in Jamestown -Captain John smith became council president in fall of 1608‚ later on smith left - • Reorganization -1609 the London company was changed to The Virginia company. From the king they got more power over the colony and also more land. -Winter of 1609-1610 became known as the “starving Time”

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    of religion‚ and many people came because they wanted a better life. In 1607 the English started Jamestown in America. This town was in the Virginia colony. The English came to Jamestown to find gold and get rich. But they never found any. At first the Jamestown settlers didn’t want to grow food or build houses. Many settlers died during the first winter. Later‚ more people came to live in Jamestown and the settlers began to work harder. They built farms and houses. The settlers began to grow tobacco

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    Dec 3 Exam 3 Sample Questions Possible Exam 3 Questions True or false: 1. Due to insurance arrangements and the securitization of mortgage investments‚ many U.S. bankers did not adequately gauge the risks of subprime loans. TRUE 2. A commonly accepted theory is that the Subprime lending crisis was due the Government placing more restrictions and regulations on the investment banking industry starting in 1999. FALSE 3. For the most part‚ the credit ratings granted

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    John Smith is memorialized in this 1616 Simon van de Passe engraving. In 1609 Captain John Smith dispatched a party of English under Captain Francis West from Jamestown—labeled “Iames-towne” on this map—upriver to the Falls or “The Fales.” In 1609 Captain John Smith dispatched a party of English under Captain Francis West from Jamestown—labeled “Iames-towne” on this map—upriver to the Falls or “The Fales.” Click to zoom This 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe was made when

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    2014). The Virginia Company had planned to come to the New World and search for gold and silver along with searching for a new river route that would lead to the Pacific Ocean that could be used to develop a trade with the Orient (Jamestown Colony‚ 2013) (Jamestown Settlement and the "Starving Time"‚ 2013). The people that settled in the south saw it as a chance to get rich in the New World and felt that mining and growing and selling tobacco would be their chance (Rosmanitz). The settlers that

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    natives referred to the area as Tsenacommacah. Powhatan was the weroance‚ or chief ruler of Tsenacommacah and 25 other Algonquin villages. Powhatan would play a significant role with the 104 men from the Virginia company that made up the settlement of Jamestown. Powhatan agreed to an alliance with the settlers‚ Powhatan would provide the colonists with foodstuffs in exchange for guns‚ hatchets‚ and swords. Powhatan hoped this alliance would make him technologically superior over his people’s enemies. The

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    John Smith was born on January 9‚ 1580 in Willoughby‚ England. He was an English adventurer and soldier‚ and one of the founders of Jamestown‚ Virginia and was the author of the first book written in America in English. At the age of sixteen after his father passed away‚ he ran away from home to volunteer in France who were fighting the Dutch independence from Spain. Two years later he headed toward the Mediterranean Sea where he began working on a merchant ship. At the age of twenty he joined

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    an economic recession‚ and an end to rule by grandees.” This helped people to join his cause. Bacon’s rebellion consisted of “small farmers‚ landless men‚ indentured servants‚ and even some Africans” who banded together and burned Jamestown to the ground. Burning Jamestown down “Bacon became the ruler of

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