11 März 1607 Jahr - Jamestown

Beschreibung:

-Joint stock company: investor-backed
-Backer company/Virginia Company
-Captain John Smith=leader--> martial law
-1609-1610=desperate times
-helped by Powhatan Confederacy aides Jamestown
-tobacco=cash crop saves the colony from extinction
-Chesapeake becomes the name of the surrounding area
-indentured servants=popular and useful
-1618 headright system: 50 acres given to plantation owner who supported American immigrants

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