A Southern Colony: The Valley Of Virginia

Connections: Tobacco was the main export of Jamestown, and it ws mainly harvested through indentured servants and slaves. Slaves were a very cheap way to get labor, because slaves were passed down from generation to generation and were the property of the slave owners. Indentured servants worked well for growing crops, because they were often times held as servants for much longer than the originally agreed upon time, resulting in much more labor, than it cost to bring them to the New World. The crop was grown all year round thanks to the climate.

Virginia Union was founded in 1865 to give emancipated slaves the chance to get and education. The school was actually a combination of four different schools, Richmond Theological Seminary, Wayland Seminary, Hartshorn Memorial College, and Storer college. The first founders day took place on Feburary 11, 1899, and the first classes began in 1899. There were nine buildings made designed by John Coxhead. These places were Pickford Hall named after a former trustee board member C.J. Pickford, Kingsley Hall named after Chester Kingsley a former president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Coburn Hall named after Maine Governor Abner Coburn, Dr. King preached at the chapel and W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington gave lectures there, it burned in 1970 but is now restored and holds services each Thursday at 11. The Martin E. Gray hall named

The Virginia colony was founded by John Smith a english explorer and some other colonist in the year 1607. The colony was one of the first 13 colonies that was located on the atlantic coast of North america . The colony was named after Queen Elizabeth l. John Smith was also a solider, map maker and a trader. He was captured and taken in december of 1607 by a Powhatan hunting party. Later he was saved by chief powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas by coming in between him and a blow from her father.

Their main crop became tobacco, which was an industry that took off rather quickly in England. However, even though the soil was rich, growing tobacco completely destroyed the soil and therefore the settlers of Chesapeake had to quickly start to expand their land further west to compensate for the demand of tobacco and their defertilization of their own soil. This lead to a rise of wealthy plantation owners and a plethora of indentured servants. Meanwhile, in New England, their economy was based off things like fishing and lumber, due to the fact they had rocky mountains, poor soil and harsh winters which made it practically impossible to cultivate plants. These colonies relied heavily on the mother country, England, for trade. This lead to a rise of mercantilism, where England imported the raw materials from the colony and exported the finished goods for the colony to buy. However, this also lead to a lot of New England settlers smuggling and selling their goods to Dutch and French people so they could make money, since England was not paying them much for their materials and the finished products were too expensive to

The Virginia Colony economy relied heavily on the mass production of tobacco. Tobacco changed their way of life forever. Before the incredible introduction of tobacco, Virginia was mostly a series of small farms and the population of the communities packed together.

The land became rapidly exploited and cultivated to produce tobacco. After the establishment of this cash crop, tobacco was glorified and largely advertised in both the colonies and England. As well as its large cultivation of tobacco, its connection to what became known as the Chesapeake Bay served as a prominent economic aspect to Virginia. By mid-century, the establishment of indentured servants had been regulated and used frequently by plantation owners. This being a prominent factor to Virginia's social development, its downfall and rise of slavery also played a prime role in social transformation.

The Chesapeake region of the colonies included Maryland, the New Jerseys, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Chesapeake's population consisted mostly of black-slaves. Chesapeake had such a high demand for tobacco that plantation owners relied heavily on cheap labor slaves therfore trading slaves became a prominent industry. Religion was not that important to colonist because they were more focused on being successful economically. The Anglican Church was established after 1692 but many colonists (mostly slaves) did not participate in the Anglican Church. Chesapeake's economy revolved around the tobacco industry, which helped other future industries to evolve as well. Slave trade relied on the tobacco plantation owners as a business to sell slaves

In Virginia, people lived in farms instead of towns. These farm were scattered all over the southern colonies. Farmers who raised tobacco made plantations and tobacco was very important that it sometimes was used as money. Other crops that were very important were rice and indigo, which was a plant used to make blue dye.

The seventeenth century brought plenty of changes to North America. One of the most significant ones was the formation of the thirteen colonies along the North American east coast. These colonies are generally divided into New England, Middle and South or the Chesapeake regions. Most of these colonies were settled by the British, yet they developed differently as the years went by. Some developed into more egalitarian colonies and some not. The greatest differences could be seen in the New England and Chesapeake regions. Even though the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled originally by The British, they had their own differences which were influenced by many of factors, including the reasons they were founded, their social

The people of the New England and Chesapeake colonies, although came from the same people, turned into very different cultures. For example, in New England, Puritanism was favored while in the Chesapeake region Christianity was practiced. Often times, religion would dictate a certain peoples way of life. Although both religions were strict, both had different ideas. Also, there were disagreements that occurred between the people within a colony. Many other ways of life were established in each of these areas independent of each other.

Slavery was caused by economic factors of the English settlers in the late 17th century. Planters primarily relied on indentured servitude, in order to facilitate their need for labor. Before the 1680's, Indentured Servitude was the primary source of labor in the newly developed colonies but after the 1680's, the population of the Indentured Servants decreased, exponentially. The Seventeenth century in Virginia was an unruly and rebellious time as the labour force, being both white and some black servants, was becoming more and more disloyal.

The economy of the Chesapeake and New England were both directly affected by their geographical locations and surroundings. The Chesapeake colonies were very rich and fertile in soil, which allowed them to develop an agricultural-based economy; whereas, the New England colonies were

To begin, the Chesapeake region consisted of two colonies: Virginia and Maryland. In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh went on an exploratory voyage with several men to Roanoke Island. Landing was only temporary because they needed decided the island was fertile to support a settlement. A couple of years later, John White came over with 117 men, women, and children to settle in Roanoke Island. John White

In 1607 a group of English settlers built village in Jamestown, Virginia. King Jaime I of England founded a colony in the first seven months after its arrival. Within these colonies we find the New England colonies and South Carolina colonies. We will analyze and compare the government systems, religious and economic development of both colonies and how they were related.

The Massachusetts Bay colony and Virginia had a sundry amount of differences as well as similarities. Each of these colonies was founded upon different ways of living. Digging deeper, there are many more differences about these colonies than there are similarities. Although both colonies eventually experienced the help of the natives, each colony set separate rules and laws for themselves. Virginia is more geographically spread out and more focused on obtaining gold for personal profit, whereas Massachusetts is more of a united, small farmed colony that focused more on the efforts for religious freedom.