I will compare and contrast three colonies, Virginia, South Carolina, and Massachusetts, to demonstrate that the motivations of the colonists determined their success. Virginia: was chartered in 1606 to the Virginia Company. The Company decided to attract colonists by awarded land in exchange for indenturing themselves to be a servant for four-seven years. A booming cash crop of tobacco and the possibility of owning land sent a flood of between 130,000 and 150,000 immigrants, mostly young men, to Virginia. Tobacco was a monoculture, however, and little else was cultivated. Malnutrition and exhaustion resulted in extreme death rates. If you happened to live to age 20, your life expectancy was only 48 years. Additionally, four in ten servants
For a long time, Jamestown, VA took in many indentured servants—a worker who is under contract of an employer for up to seven years in exchange for transportation and many necessities (clothing, food, drink, and lodging)—in order to fulfill the duties that the owners couldn’t. Though employers made Jamestown seem like a loving and welcoming place, it was just the opposite. These indentured servants were treated equally to slaves, but many were willing to risk their lives in order to gain their own land. Once they obtained land of their own, they could grow their own tobacco and become extremely wealthy.
The first settlement of North Carolina was Albermale Sound and South Carolina was Charleston. A group of people that was quite smaller settled on the northern coast near Albemarle Sound in 1654. The settlement that that smaller group had settled at grew bigger but they had little in common with the south. In 1712, the North and South Carolina divided. The northern part became North Carolina and the southern part became South Carolina.
A plantation economy, an economy founded on an agricultural mass production like tobacco, sustained the source of income of the Chesapeake regions, consisting Virginia, Maryland, and northern North Carolina. The early settlers soon realized the urgent need for labor in the New World. Due to the fact that many potential immigrants could not afford an expensive trip across the Atlantic, the Virginia Company developed the system of indentured servitude to attract common laborers. Since tobacco required intensive hand labor all year round, indentured servants have become vital to the colonial economy. "Virginia Servant and Slave Laws" represent the elaborate efforts of masters' to profit from indentured servants and slaves against runaway and
John Rolfe was an English settler who based the voyage to America simply on the growth of tobacco. Rolfe’s crew, along with many other young men, traveled to Virginia in 1609 to search for gold. When the ship reached on the shore, all that was seen was sandy beaches and swampy marshes. Neither of which helped with the growth of the major cash crop. Even after the valiant attempts to scrounge for gold, there was no success.With the large amount of crops that Virginia grew, the colony needed to expand west into new land for more room to grow crops. At this time Virginia was an underdeveloped colony that needed settlers to come live and work. Virginia introduced the ever growing indentured servitude. Most of the indentured servants were possibly single men of the lower class. The ship’s list of emigrants
With the explosion of the tobacco industry, the need for cheap labor had increased dramatically. Many poverty stricken individuals immigrated to the new world under indentured servitude contracts with hopes of starting a new life. By the year 1650, the average life expectancy of colonists of Virginia was
During the establishment of the Virginia colonies, the ownership of indentured servants became popular. In Document 1, during years 1645 and 1657 the number of indentured servants per probate inventory increased from about 0.6 to about 2.1 showing that Virginia preferred them probably because of their low cost. Although they were
The United States today, as we know it, is a very culturally, economically, politically and religiously diverse country. This is due, in part, to the differences and division among its founding thirteen English colonies along the country’s east coast. Those thirteen states collectively made up the Northern or New England colonies, the Mid-Atlantic or Middle colonies and the rural Southern colonies. Each of which had their own way of living and several differences that were unique to those regions. For the men and women who populated these colonies, their ‘new’ world may have slightly resembled England, hence the names New England, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New Netherland – later renamed New York, but they wanted it not to be exactly like their
Life in England during the early 1600’s was harsh for a multitude of the poor. The country was just coming out of the Thirties Year’s War with a flood of citizens and laborers displaced. In fact, PBS (2015) indicated that “the timing of the Virginia colony was ideal.” The Thirty Year 's War had left Europe 's economy depressed, and many skilled and unskilled laborers were without work. A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants” (para. 3). This opportunity for those willing to receive free passage to the New World and start a new life was enticing. Granted, the work was difficult it was not without reward.
In 1606 the Virginia Company was created also known as the New Virginia. The food was supposed to come from two places: occasional supply ships and trade with the local Native Americans. There were a couple issues with this one the lag time from back and forth of each location, and the amount of men that they started off with came back less than they started with because of death. John Smith forced on people a strict control on the colonists "Work or starve." Each colonist was needed/demanded to spend hours per day farming. The winter from 1609-10, was known as the "starving time," was the worst time of all. A large amount of the English colonists, who moved in from another country to Virginia, died of starvation as well as sicknesses destroyed
In this paper I will discuss the differences between the Southern colony and the New England colony and how each labor systems worked. The Southern and Northern colonies differences were obvious in their regions. The differences that I will discuss will be the religious choices, governing, and economy. I will compare the many beliefs on how things were to be governed and who made those decisions for the good of the colony and their economic status. Religion: There were four original colonies of New England: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
The main shipment of this tobacco achieved London in 1614. Inside 10 years it had turned into Virginia's central wellspring of income. Success did not come rapidly, notwithstanding, and the passing rate from sickness and Indian assaults remained uncommonly high. In the vicinity of 1607 and 1624, roughly 14,000 individuals relocated to the state, yet just thousands were living there in 1624. On a suggestion of a regal commission, the ruler disintegrated the Virginia Company and made it a regal
South Carolina, a state with plenty of history and marshland was actually not discovered until a while after North America had been founded. In fact, Virginia was colonized almost sixty years before South Carolina was. However, European countries had beforehand attempted to colonize this area. In 1521 Francisco Gordillo, of Spain, sailed to the Carolina coast, he did not try to settle the area, but he did attempt to enslave the natives and send them to the Caribbeans. To have “settled” the area, would mean to have built a lasting community that can live on it’s own. Soon after, Lucas Vasquez de Ayllón brought 600 settlers to try and colonize the area. However they ran into many problems such as: weather, sickness, low food supplies, and hostility
The timing of the Virginia colony was the most realistic at the time. The Thirty Year's War had left Europe's economy dry therefore there was a ton of laborers unemployed. A new life in the New World offered hope and potential happiness, this explains how two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants.
Virginia has differences and similarities when it comes to slave narratives. To explain further Virginia was the first in English history to become the royal colony. However, this is why the details and experiences that these ex-slaves gave in describing the institution of slavery and the practice of slavery were tremendously important the English kings that were always occupied. Virginia House in the late 1630 's was highly recognized. Sir William Berkeley became governor in 1941, the colony was well established and extended on this. European settlers had come on legal contracts as servants, but many of them became working as freemen and farmers. There were 250 Africans that came on board to work and were also slaves. They all were in with the merchant class the had families in Virginia but was solely controlled by the government. However, white males mostly had legal rights to owning properties in colonial periods and they were qualified to vote. The white settlers had their own religious beliefs, they were Anglicans, while the early settlers that were based in New York were either Puritans, Quakers, Protestants, or Lutheran and also Morgans. The England civil war was introduced by Anglicans and support that looked up to Charles I, also many of them came to Virginia to settle. The crowning in 1652, was sent by Oliver Cromwell to the Puritan Common well-being so that foreigners would engaged in free trades. In 1660, Virginia practically became independent
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