1 janv. 1607 - British Establish Jamestown

Description:

-Chesapeake colony
-First North America british colony
-Not family settlers
-Joint Stock Company: group of investors pool money and share the financial risk and gain
-Aimed to find gold and silver but failed
-Famine and disease caused a lot of death, settlers forced into cannibalism
-John Rolfe planted tobacco which then got popular in England, so they were saved
-Indentured servants: people who couldn't afford passage across the Atlantic so they sign a seven year labor contract
-Farmers needed more land for tobacco so they encroached on Native lands; Natives retaliated and raided

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