HISB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Body Politic, Middle Colonies, Yellow Fever
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John smith ensured survival for jamestown by instituting harsh discipline, organizing settler, and requiring them to build houses and plant food. Tobacco saved virginia john rolfe, perfected a salable variety of tobacco for planting there. To attract labor and capital, company awarded fifty-acre land grants to anyone paying his or her own. 1619 virginia was exporting large, profitable amounts of tobacco passage or that of a labourer. 1619 thevirginia company ended military rule and provided for an elected assembly, the house of. Struggle with the indians and the problems bankrupt the company in the end. Terrible epidemic devastated the indian population, 90 percent in 1616-1618. 1620 virginia company of london granted a patent for a settlement to english merchants, who dispatched. 18 families colonists promised to send back resources for 7 years (fur, lumber, fish ) Because they had no legal right to be there, leaders forced adult males in the group to sign the mayflower.
