AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indentured Servant, Daniel Bacon, James Oglethorpe
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Joint stock company, jamestown, john smith, john rolfe, Tobacco, headrights, house of burgesses, an unthinking decision , indentured servants, bacon"s rebellion (1676), lord. Baltimore, barbados, a colony of a colony , james oglethorpe, 1607 some stock holders, some just investors in london. They don"t make a pro t, no gold no silver in jamestown: not making a lot of money and are living in a sickly environment. 1622, native americans tries to destroy jamestown, 1/3 of colonists killed in a single day surviving and prospering are very different things. John rolfe important because he introduced tobacco to virginia. Becomes the gold and silver in virginia, introduced in 1617. 1625 - 200,000 lbs tobacco, 1638 - 3,000,000 lbs tobacco. Jamestown"s key is tobacco poor timing for people who own joint stock company, they give the colony of jamestown to the king because they went bankrupt. Virginia becomes a royal colony no regular ships to and from england.
