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Joint Stock Company
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This was where numerous investors pooled their capital and over a period of time, the stockholders could turn their capital into a profit. King James I of England chartered a joint stock company known as the Virginia Company in 1606 which set the foundation for settlement in America.
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Jamestown
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The Virginia Company sent sail three ships with hundreds of Englishmen and landed in the Chesapeake Bay and were attacked by Indians. They found shelter around a nearby river (the James River) and settled there in Jamestown on May 24th, 1607, naming it after King James I. This began the colonization of Virginia and the United States of America.
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Captain John Smith
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He was the leader of the colonists as of 1608 who was motivated and did not condone laziness by stating, "He who shall not work shall not eat." He was "kidnapped" by Powhatan, the chief of the Powhatan tribe and "saved" from murder by Pocahontas to express the idea of peace between the natives and the colonists.
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John Rolfe
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He was the husband of Pocahontas, but better known as "the Father of the Tobacco Industry" which rescued Virginia from an economic breakdown. He found ways to plant the crop well and efficiently, planted it west and flourishing the tobacco and Virginia colony's economy.
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Pocahontas
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As the daughter of the tribal chief Powhatan, she "saved" John Smith from a fake execution and later became the reliable wife of the prominent John Rolfe. She then became an important mediator between the natives and the colonists.
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Virginia House of Burgesses
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This was a parliamentary-type, representative self-government established by the London Company in 1619. Mainly the wealthy that owned slaves and large pieces of land in its later years dominated the House. In 1624, furious with the House, King James I made Virginia a royal colony.
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Lord Baltimore
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He was the founder of Maryland in 1634 that was an English-Catholic seeking refuge for the other Catholics. He bought vast areas of land in which he had Protestants tend to. He supported religious freedom but the Act of Toleration stopped that thought.
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Act of Toleration
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This was a law passed in 1689 granting religious freedom to Protestants if they followed certain conditions and restrictions. This act helped the Catholics evade a Protestant takeover, as it did happen in England.
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Restoration Colonies
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The Restoration Colonies were land grants made to be gifts by King Charles II and were proprietary because they were owned by Englishmen that helped King Charles II hold onto the throne. These colonies consisted of the Carolinas, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
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The Carolinas
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The Carolinas were named after Charles II, who gave the land to the Lord Proprietors to grow food. Barbados slaves came to work in Carolina and it became a big rice exporter. John Locke created the Constitution of Carolina and then the colony became one of the most religiously tolerant of all. In the 1700s, the colony split into North and South and rice began a big factor in their economies.
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Rice Plantations
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Skilled African slaves came to the Carolinas to cultivate the rice which greatly helped the economy because it was a huge and profitable export. They became very rich and eventually took advantage and brought in more and more slaves to do the work.
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Tobacco Farms
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When John Rolfe made the tobacco industry in 1612, it spread like wildfire to the west and helped the Chesapeake economy. When Dutch ships carried over slaves, those Africans worked on the plantations. The tobacco itself was very damaging to the soil, so the farms were pushed farther and farther west as more of the crop was being grown.
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