CHAPTER 3SECTION 1

Colonial America

1587-1770

JAMESTOWN BECAME THE FIRST SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISHED ENGLISH COLONY IN NORTH AMERICA

EARLY ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS

Jamestown, Virginia

GovernmentRepresentative Gov’t, House of Burgesses

EconomyFarming Tobacco

1619- A DUTCH SHIP BRINGS 20 AFRICANS WHO WERE SOLD TO JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA PLANTERS TO LABOR IN THE TOBACCO FIELDS. THE MAY HAVE COME AS SERVANTS RATHER THAN SLAVES. UNTIL 1640 SOME AFRICAN LABORERS IN JAMESTOWN WERE FREE AND EVEN OWNED PROPERTY.

THE BIRTH OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA

William Tucker, the first African American born in the American colonies,

was a free man.

Many shiploads of Africans (unwilling passengers) would arrive in North America and

be sold as slaves.

Slavery was first recognized in Virginia

law in the 1660’s.

CHAPTER 3, SECTION 1 VOCABULARY

Charter: The right to organize settlements in an area.

Joint-stock company: Investors bought stock, or part ownership, in the company in return for a share of future profits.

Burgesses: Representatives to an assembly that had the right to make local laws for the colony.