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Come Settle and Live in the Beautiful Colony of Virginia!!!!
History of Our Beautiful Colony
The British were the ones to create the colony of Virginia, making it the first British colony. Many Europeans, however were competing for the region, such as the Spanish, French, Dutch, and Swedish because the more colonies a country had, the more important and dominant it was. As the colony started off and different companies settled in the land (such as the Plymouth, London, and Virginia), the town of Jamestown was founded. However, colonists went through a rough time, due to the Starving Time, and as a result many of the colonists no longer remained. However, it was John Rolfe who brought the colony back to stardom! As the colony expanded, relations with local Native Americans and the colonists worsened as the colonists forced them out of their land and forced them to move to other areas. Slaves also raised to help in the cultivation of the tobacco crop. This colony is located on the Eastern part of North America, touching the Atlantic Ocean. The location was good because since Virginia touched the Ocean, and Jamestown was situated quite near to the ocean, tobacco was able to be exported out. The colony had towns and farms, but farms proved to be more necessary since tobacco was such a big cash crop. The 'Hundreds' was a section of land that investors closed off in specific sections of the colonies to farm tobacco, proving just how vital the crop was to the colony. At the beginning of our colony's history the Anglican Church dominated, but as time went on Protestants, Baptists, and Methodists challenged this church so that they can have more leadership in the colony. While the House of the Burgesses persisted, a series of governors persisted as rulers. The real governors stayed mostly in England; it was mostly later that these governors began to rule from the colony. Before this system of government however, the colony was ruled under a council and martial law under Thomas Dale.
House of Burgesses
Thanks to the Virginia Company, we are the FIRST in the whole world to have a legislative assembly similar to the European's. How wonderful!
Tobacco & Slaves
Tobacco is a very important crop in our colony, and since it is so widespread and necessary for our colony, we have slaves to help cultivate this intensive crop.
Our Beautiful Colony
Virginia is the greatest colony! We are a confident and hardworking people. We kicked the Native Americans off this land because we are the bosses (and you can be too, if you come to Virginia)!
Important Events in Our History!
Bacon's rebellion was a huge rebellion in Virginia's history because it included the rich white man, the poor white man, the Native Americans, and the slaves. As the Natives were kicked out so that their land could be used for tobacco cultivation, poor whites rebelled because only the rich white men got to own this land to cultivate tobacco. The poorer colonists wanted to own land to cultivate tobacco as well. This resulted in the House of Burgesses having to regulate slavery so that the rich could not be hurt/at a disadvantage because this in this rebellion, specifically, the poor whites sided with the slaves against the rich whites. Many more important events afterwards, revolved around the Native Americans and the settlers. Many of these were wars that would result in loss of land and people for the Natives. Whenever treaties were made, they were always broken, examples include: Anglo-Powhatan Wars, Indian Massacre of 1622, and the Treaty of 1646.
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