HIST 1115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Yellow Fever, Making Money, John Casor
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Chapter 3 textbook notes: king james of england gave a land grant to the virginia company, a royal license to poach on both. Jamestown- first permanent english settlement in north america- est. Indentured servants were expected to grow enough tobacco in one year to cover the price the planter had paid for the indenture: after servants labored 3-6 years after. If she gives birth she has to serve 2 more years as a fine: system of indentured servitude sharpened inequality, height: ba(cid:272)o(cid:374)"s re(cid:271)ellio(cid:374) 1(cid:1010)(cid:1011)(cid:1010) English ports on english ships with english sailors in order to benefit the english: showed the governments mercantilism assumption, ba(cid:272)o(cid:374)"s re(cid:271)ellio(cid:374, unsuccessful rebellion against the colonial government in 1676 by frontier settler nathanial. Bacon: dispute over virginia"s i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) poli(cid:272)(cid:455, hostility between planters and their pooerer neighbors, ba(cid:272)o(cid:374)"s la(cid:449)s, gave local settlers a vote in setting tax levies, restored vote to all freemen. Forbade officeholders from demanding bribes or extra fees.
