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 | Virginia Company Charters and ChallengesOver its seventeen year life span, the Virginia Company struggled to plant a colony far from the edge of European civilization and to make it yield a profit. To some extent they were making it up as they went along.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| England in 1607When the early colonists departed England bound for Virginia, they left behind a society divided by class, rank, wealth and religion, but also one uniquely unified in its view of the world.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| The Brothers PowhatanIn 1607 Indians of Virginia’s Tidewater discovered they had new neighbors on the James River. Their leaders, Powhatan and Opechancanough, countered the English threat in different ways.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Captain John SmithCouncilor, geographer, diplomat, soldier, taskmaster... In great measure, the Jamestown settlement survived by the hand of Captain John Smith.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Tobacco and LaborTobacco cultivation in early Virginia could be lucrative if one had land and labor. Land was there for the taking. Labor was another matter.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| The Great Charter and the First General AssemblyThe prospects for Virginia seemed bleak in 1618. The death rate was high, there were few if any profits or capital resources, and the course of the colony was uncertain. That year the colony acquired a new leader and a new direction.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| WomenAlthough outnumbered, sometimes six to one, women played an important role in the survival and prosperity of Jamestown and Virginia.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
