Download Jamestown & Plymouth: English Settlements in America - Differences & Similarities and more Quizzes United States History in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Jamestown vs Plymouth: main differences DEFINITION 1 Jamestown Chesapeake region there to make money climate is perfect for tobacco inhabited by male workers will begin to concentrate more on slavery for labor Plymouth New England region there to persue enlightenment (religion) family is the foundation of society TERM 2 Jamestown DEFINITION 2 founded 1607 first successful English colony about 100 men (no women) TERM 3 A Discourse Concerning Western Planting DEFINITION 3 Richard Hakluyt 1584 - 3 years before Roanoke Written to the Queen, several reasons why England should attempt colonization in the Americas arguments include: financial opportunity, competition with Spain had a successful influence TERM 4 Virginia Company DEFINITION 4 A corporation that collected money from investors (shareholding company) promising a profit. Goal: to make money Hoped to find gold or silver in the new world. do not intially plan long-term colonization TERM 5 Jamestown (problems) DEFINITION 5 do not find gold or silver discover that there is not enough food, not farmers but sons of Lords uneasy peace with Native Americans disease (malaria, typhoid, dissyntery) winter 1609-1610 difficult - 60% die TERM 6 House of Burgesses DEFINITION 6 1619 formed to encourage settlers to come to Jamestown despite difficulties of colonization legislative body for the colony of Virginia, first representative government in the English colonies the colonists run themselves; they are more invested, want the colony to succeed TERM 7 Jamestown: relationships with Native Americans DEFINITION 7 uneasy peace trade occasionally (1622) - Powhatan (chief) dies and brother takes charge new chief is uneasy about the colonists spreading & attacks them 5-10 yr war between English settlers and Native Americans settlers have guns, disease on both sides settlers ultimately win, Native Americans are pushed westward TERM 8 Women in Jamestown DEFINITION 8 predominantly men in Jamestown violence, drinking, possible sexual relationships with Indian women or other men company convinces women to come settle in Jamestown women have the power to choose a husband & to inherit from him 80 - 85% of women came over as indentured servants TERM 9 Tobacco DEFINITION 9 first comes from the west indies grows particularly well in Virginia & southern America luxury good (1612) - John Rolfe proposes growing tobacco need: land & labor increase English colonists' want for land & confrontations with Native Americans labor is gotten from indentured servants and slaves slavery begins to take hold TERM 10 Jamestown: indentured servants and slaves DEFINITION 10 Indentured Servants brought over to the Americas on a contract work for 5 - 7 years, then free not treated well during their term, sometimes worked to death Slaves English have also been exploring West Africa at first is not the preferred source of labor
