Tim Kaine : The Junior Senator

Both regions had greatly differing types of climates and environments. Virginia had a vast wilderness with Native Americans living on the land, Bermuda was uninhabited and was basically

In the early America colonies, each colony was largely settled by people of English origin. Although the majority of the colony founders were generally from similar areas, the colonies were all different. Two regions like this were the New England region and the Chesapeake region. New England consisted of the states Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Chesapeake consisted of Virginia and Maryland. Although the regions were very close to each other on a map, by the 1700’s both regions had evolved into two very distinct societies. This was due to the colonists reasons fro coming to the New World, their belief systems, the colonists themselves, and the geography.

Although bout the New England and Chesapeake region were both settles by Americans, the regions were split due to some differences, but, they also shared similarities. During the 1700's the colonial era, colonies, began as one distinct region, yet, as time progressed, due to differences, such as a more fertile land in the New England colony, , the region broke into two different societies.

In the Chesapeake region, the settlers came for entirely different reasons; they didn't come to form a community in the New World, they came looking for gold. Everything in Virginia—the colonist, the politics, and the society—was based on profit, unlike in the New England region, it was an "every-man-for-himself" society instead of a brotherly community. In History of Virginia, Capitan John Smith wrote that the colonist main reason for coming to the New World was to "… dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold…" Another reason the Chesapeake region was so different from the New England region was because the basis of the settlement was to find gold and ship it back to Mother England, some of the colonist did not plan to stay in the New World either; they were only attracted by the economic benefits.

The Chesapeake region was very successful at farming, and mining, and exported a lot of goods. "The worst with their golden promises made all men their slaves in hope of recompenses." (Doc F). New England had some pretty large ports, but the settlements tended to stay more localized than the Chesapeake. The Chesapeake region was very hot, and perfect for farming crops such as sugar, rice, and tobacco.

When we think of our country now, we think about how it is separated into states, but back then the states were part of colonies. Some of the main colonies were the Chesapeake colonies which consisted of Virginia and Maryland, the middle colonies were Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, and lastly, the New England colonies which were Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. In the colonial regions of New England, Chesapeake and the middle colonies they all share similarities and differences, most predominantly shown in family life, rank and status.

All these regions are unique since they all have their own way of coping with life. To begin with, an amount of colonies settled in the region of New England. New England included the colonies such as the separatist puritans (pilgrims), Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Another thing about New England is that they did a variety of things to earn money instead of farming since it was difficult due to long winters, thick forest, and rocky soil. For example, in order for them to make money they fished and with this growth they started to lumber, fur trade, metal work, sold slaves, and made whale oil which was used of lamps.

This contributed to a rise in use of abundant natural resources, such as lumber, which made a successful ship building industry. On the other hand, in the Chesapeake region, rich farmland and forests provided colonists with perfect harvest conditions. In 1673, Governor Berkeley confirmed Virginia was intersected with many vast rivers as seen in Doc. G, demonstrating their rich soil. The geography of the Chesapeake area was more

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 original colonies were divided into three main regions, the North, the Mid-Atlantic, and the South. Though split by their regions, they all shared

As a North Carolinian, I did not spend very much time dwelling on the state of West Virginia. To me, it was a state that not many people paid attention to. It kind of just did its own thing without anyone thinking twice about it. It wasn’t until when I was deciding where to go to school that West Virginia was formally introduced to me. Contacted by the Women’s Lacrosse coach, I visited and promptly fell in love with the University of Charleston but it was nothing I was expecting from West Virginia. When I began to tell people that I was going to school in WV, I was flooded with opinions. Every friend of mine I’ve told, gave me the same or similar response: “doesn’t everyone have sex with their cousins up there?” Now I would be lying if I hadn’t thought of that once or twice about it but that was only the tip of the iceberg when it came to my perceptions of the state.

Tim Kaine began practicing law in Richmond, Virginia, after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1983. He was voted to the Richmond City Council in 1994, marking the start of a political ascent that

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Virginia, in the southern region, was the first area colonized, named for Queen Elizabeth who was supposedly a virgin. It was intended to be a source of wealth for England by providing cash crops such as tobacco and, eventually, a new market for English goods.. The short winters and warm summers were ideal for growing cash crops such as cotton, tobacco, and rice, all of which were labor intensive. Most of the people who immigrated to these southern colonies were poor Englishmen who were part of the growing number of unemployed in their home country. They paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants, hoping to work off their servitude on the plantations and begin a new life in a new land. As economic conditions improved in England however, Virginia, as well as the other southern colonies, began to rely more and more on slave labor. Slaves became a better investment than in indentured servants, and the southern colonies soon transitioned to slave-based, agricultural economies. (Taylor)