HIST 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Joint-Stock Company, George Percy
6 Oct 2016
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Investors and shareholders tried to copy spanish model of colonization: spanish encountered natives, stole their goods, and enslaved them. Virginia company of london thought plan would take 7 years. From 1607-1612 the native americans had been feeding the english, without the native americans, the. English settlement would have collapsed within 9 months. Absence of leadership, governing body was supposed to be in england near the king; without john. Smith there would not have been true leadership in jamestown. Smith however was injured in a gun powder explosion and therefore he wasn"t there for the bad winter. Lazy englishmen: weren"t accustomed to working hard. The changing economic times in england had caused english expansion in late 1500"s.
