Early Virginia

 

Virginia Company of London

Jamestown (1607)

English Work Ethic

"Gentlemen and Adventurers"

      -Surface resources

       -Underground Resources

       -Northwest Passage
 

Captain John Smith

Powhatan

       -Pocahontas

John Rolfe

       -Tobacco (1611)

Dale's Laws (1610-1619)

Richard Hakluyt

Sir Edwin Sandys

"Headright System

Indentured Servitude

Cavaliers & Roundheads

Governor John Harvey

    Jamestown

 
Chesapeake, 1650-1700