The Economic History of the United States 13

The Economic History of the United States 13

1. Lecture 13
The Economic History of the United States

2. Practice Quiz
What are the two questions in economics?

3. 1607
The First Adventure
Religion
Economics

4. King James I
1566 - 1625
59

5. Became King of Scotland
1567
Age 1
King of England
1603
Age 37

6. The Virginia Company of London
1607
The Plymouth Company
1620

7. King
James
Bible
1611

8. William Tyndale October 6, 1536

10. Wales 1543
Scotland 1707
Ireland 1801
N. Ireland 1922

11. Union Jack
England - St. George Scotland - St. Andrew

14. Neither
endorse
nor
prohibit

15. The Virginia Company of London
1607
Jamestown

16. Adventure Capital
Joint Stock Company
Unlimited Upside
Limited Downside

17. Jamestown
144
-39 passage
105
-67 malaria, typhoid, dysentery
38

19. 1607
The First Adventure
Who came?
Opportunity

23. December 1609: 220
June 1610: 60
Abandon Colony
Meet three ships with 300 recruits
Return

26. 1616
Private Ownership
of
Land

27. 1618
20,000
1638
3,000,000
150x

28. 1619
90 women
125 pounds of tobacco
House of Burgess
Magna Carta 1215
Dutch ship with Africans

29. Mayflower Compnay
1620

31. Mayflower
Sept. 5, 1620
102
Passengers
7 Years

34. William
Bradford
1590 - 1657

Dec. 18, 1620
Of Plymouth
Plantation