England

Major settlements

• Virginia(named after Queen Elizabeth)
• Jamestown (first permanent English colony)
• Georgia
• North and South Carolina

Leaders

• Queen Elizabeth- head of common wreath and supreme governor
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert (founder of english colony
• Charles I- (monarch if the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland)
• King James

Economic Structure?

• Made profits off of tobacco 
• Became wealthy off of tobacco 

Social Structure

• Four million people
• Market towns of several hundred made local exchanges
• Husbands ruled their wives, mastered their servants and parented their chil
• King/Queen top- Hereditary- Peers- Gentry-Yeomen 

Physical environment?

• Land was hot, humid and mosquito infected
• Settlers were mostly artiocrats
• Settlers didnt know how to fish, farm or hunt

Economic Struggles

• Searching for gold that was nonexistent
• Weather
• Diseases

Role of slaves

• In 1619, dutch ship dropped off 20 Africans in Jamestown
• There was only 300 blacks in Virginia
• English relied more on white labor force 

Interactions with natives

• Local natives helped colonists with food
• Taught English how to farm and live off land
• Were assistances and observers of colonists
• Saved English from stuggling 

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