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The Virginia Colony
Explore The Virginia Colony by examining the original documents and images of the period
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This workshop tells the story of America's corporate beginnings and explores Jamestown as a business operation. Using primary source documents, you can examine the Virginia Company's settlement in Jamestown as a case study in colonial economics and social dynamics, and debate why it failed and whether failure was avoidable.


Objectives

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To gain a deeper understanding of historical content of the early colonial period through reading and discussing primary source documents.

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To examine the geographic, demographic, and other conditions affecting the establishment of the Virginia colony.

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To assess colonial settlement as an economic venture.

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To understand what it took to start a successful colony and how successful colonies built on earlier failures.





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