The English and the Founding of Virginia

1. Early European Interest--Minor and Fleeting
   1. The Spanish--Florida--Strategic Interest
   2. The French
2. The English--The Founding People
   1. As "Johnnie-Come-Latelies" to New World Expansion
   2. Motives for Expansion
      1. Trade
      2. National Ambitions
   3. A Strategy for Expansion--Settler Colonies--The Richard Hakluyts and "Greater England"
   4. Abortive Early Efforts--The "Lost Colony" (1587)
3. Jamestown
   1. Origin--A Commercial Proposition--The Virginia Company (1607)
   2. Early Difficulties, 1607-1618
      1. High Mortality
      2. Regimentation--A Shipboard Society
      3. Poor Opportunities
   3. Transformation, 1618-1624--The Edwin Sandys Regime
      1. New Policies
         1. The Headright System
         2. A Representative Assembly
      2. Consequence--Loss of Company Control and Royal Takeover (1624)
   4. The Tobacco Boom