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Virginia Assembly |
this is the name of VA's government
1619 the governor of the colony called the 1st meeting |
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1st Settlement in the colony of Virginia |
Jamestown settlement
It was a success by 1619 |
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General Assembly |
it is a legislative body that can make laws |
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General Assembly - originally comprised of 3 parts |
- 2 representatives from each of the divisions of VA - these representatives were called Burgesses - the governor's council - the governor
This group met as 1 body (group) and only certain free, adult, white men had a right to take part. |
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House of Burgesses |
by the 1640 the Burgesses became a separate legislative body called the _____ __ _________ |
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General Assembly - in the 1640s |
2 parts to VA's government then
- the house of burgesses
- the governor's council and the governor
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House of Burgesses |
1st elected legislative (group to make laws) body in English America
it gave the settlers the right to make their own laws |
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current Virginia General Assembly |
- this is the government in VA today
- dates from the establishment (start) of the House of Burgesses at Jamestown in 1619
**the US government is based on this model |
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voters in VA |
- today - all registered adults in VA may vote
- in the early General Assembly - only free, white men who owned land could vote - no women, no indentured servants, no slaves and no Indians could vote then |
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1st legislature in the English colonies |
- was in VA - known as the House of Burgesses - 1st meeting July 30, 1619 at a church in Jamestown - 1st order of business was to set a minimum price for the sale of tobacco |
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VA House of Delegates |
successor to the original VA House of Burgesses
today, it is the world's oldest continuously meeting legislative body |
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Indentured Servants and Slaves in VA |
In the 1600s Portugues sailors captured African men & women in what is now Angola, Africa
these men and women were brought to Jamestown against their will
the status of the 1st Africans in VA was not known. they were either sold as: - indentured servants or slaves |
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indentured servants |
people who were sold to pay for their voyage and worked for a period of time (usually 4 - 7 years) and then given freedom
Later (than 1619) poor white people came to VA and in order to pay for their voyage they were sold as _____________ ___________ |
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slaves |
people who were sold to other people and who never gained back their freedom |
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how it became possible to expand the tobacco economy |
the arrival of the Africans in 1619 made it possible
it took much labor to grow tobacco and the Africans gave the colonists cheap or free labor so that they could grow tobacco and sell it to England as a cash crop - this allowed for a higher profit |
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tobacco |
became more and more important as a cash crop in VA
became the most profitable (making money) crop in VA |
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VA and agriculture |
VA depended on agriculture (farming) as its primary main) source of wealth (money) |
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plantations |
large farm
colonists began starting large farms called ___________
these lg farms grew a cash crop (in VA it was tobacco)
plantations used slaves (men, women and children brought to VA against their will and sold to the plantation owners) |
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compare & contrast the Early Government |
1619 - VA Assembly: governor, governor's council, incl appointed and elected representatives
1640 - VA House of Burgesses: 1st elected legislative body in America, incl only elected representatives, continues today, became a separate legislative body, became the General Assembly of VA
Both: burgesses, adult white men, 2 citizen representatives from each division |
