1 jan 1607 ano - Jamestown

Descrição:

-Joint Stock Company = investor-backed
-backer company = Virginia Company
-Captain John Smith = leader
-martial law instituted for survival
1609-1610 desperate times
-Powhatan Confederacy aides Jamestown
-tobacco  cash crop, saves colony from extinction
-Chesapeake becomes name of surrounding area
-indentured servants – popular and useful
-1618 headright sys. 50 acres given to a plantation owner who sponsored ppl over to America