What steps did Edwin Sandys take to try and reorganize the colony at Jamestown and hopefully save the Virginia Company? Was he successful? What ultimately happened to the Virginia Company?
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In your answer, be sure to discuss Sandys’ efforts to reorganize the government at Jamestown, give the colonists title (ownership) of land, resolve the tensions with the Indians, and recruit colonists.
(Key terms: recruiting indentured servants, abolishing the Laws Divine, Moral and Martial, House of Burgesses, Common Law, giving land to planters, headrights, bi-racial community, Opechancanough Massacre, reasons for the fall of the Virginia Company