If you love farming and living without a care in the world, then here, in Virginia, you will find your true happiness in life.
So come here to the place where your heart desires, and if you don't, then you will live without knowing of heaven.
So follow your farming dream and come to Virginia.
We are representatives of the Virginia Company, owners of Virginia, until we became a royal colony in 1624. We are followers of the Anglican Church, contributing to the English economy, enslavement, and cash crop farming. Our company is credible since we were the first British settlement in North America and we have survived for almost one hundred years backed by England. Our colony resides in the southern part of the east coast of North America between
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A: As a free person, your place in this colony is to gain wealth through farming; however, if you are an indentured servant, then you must work for a limited term, and if you are a gentry (a rich person), then you may own many slaves to work your land and make your life as simple as possible.
LIFESTYLE:
Q: Do I get free time and what can I
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However, if you chose another colony, then you will not have nearly as much free time since you have to work more, rather than using slaves to complete the work for you.
GOVERNMENT:
Q: What type of ruler does Virginia have; a monarch, dictator, or elected official run the colony?
A: Virginia has a sort of democracy, in which its government is run by officials. Our colony has the House of Burgesses (created 1619), which was made of elected officials who decided laws at the General Assembly. We also had leader of Virginia from 1642-1652 (Sir William Berkeley) who had one of the best relationships with the citizens compared to other colonies.
GEOGRAPHY: SOIL QUALITY:
Q: Can I be a successful farmer on Virginia’s land?
A: Yes, you can be a farmer using Virginia’s soil, since here we have high quality soil and warm temperatures, perfect for farming and growing crops like tobacco. However; in other areas, mainly in the north, they have cold weather and low quality soil making it hard for them to grow anything, making Virginia best if you are a
Breen, T. H., and Stephen Innes. Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia 's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. 25th anniversary ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 142 pages (kindle edition).
During his time as an indentured servant, Moraley would travel to the countryside for jobs and would describe that “ Almost every inhabitant, in the Country, have a plantation … where Gentlemen live on the Labour of the Farmer, to whom he grants a short Lease, which expiring, is raised in his Rent, or discharged him Farm.” 7 Colonial America was known for its plantation economy and as described here the gentlemen Moraley refers to live off of the labor of tenant farms, along with servants and slaves as well. Moraley uses the word “gentlemen” to invoke a tone of elitism that the plantation owner embodies. The plantation owner maybe using farmers as his tenants but he still has overbearing power on them because of the farmer’s predicament. The predicament, in this case, is that the farmer has nowhere else to turn to rather than what is essential in an agriculture-based economy, and therefore has to be willing to be under the supervising control of a landowner. This shows the advantages that many affluent landowners, masters, and elites can get since they have an abundance of what the servant, farmer, or poor laborer desires and therefore can subsequently use it for their own capitalistic
A fundamental difference between the New England and Southern colonies was the motives of the founders. In 1606, the Virginia Company was formed, motivated primarily by the promise ...
The Virginia constitution was created in 1776 and it is about the basic ruling of the commonwealth of Virginia. Their constitution limited the power of the government and created the basic rights for their people. Similar to all states ' constitution, their constitution is the supreme document of Virginia; however, the U.S. constitution or federal laws can take over. Virginia was the first to enact their constitution and their constitution influenced many states. The constitution limited its rights to vote for white men who
Early Virginia's flourishing cultivation of tobacco drew a diversity of people, from fresh war veterans and former soldiers, to adventurers and ordinary people looking to recoup from former monetary losses. However the tobacco did not only alter the country culturally and economically, but it “ threw more wood into the fire.” It strengthened the infamous individualistic attitude the colonists had. The advent...
After the black Americans were freed from their slave masters they did not have ‘a cent in their pockets’ and ‘without a hut to shelter them’ . This obvious lack a home, and the monetary funds needed to support them [the freed slaves] and their families, together with the lack of widespread Government support meant that many slaves continued to live in poverty, and in many ways, they could have been better off (economically), had they been left in bondage . For this reason, many Southern slaves ‘had little choice but to remain as paid labourers or to become sharecroppers working on the land as before’ . Sharecropping, which generally involved the ex-slaves renting land, tools, and a house from a white landlord, working the land that is given to them, and then providing the landlord with one-half to two-thirds of the produce . ‘This system kept the black cotton producers in an inferior position’ , which means that while they were ‘officially free’; they were still stuck in the previous cycle of working for their previous masters, without hope of escape for a better life. While this is what most ex-slaves did, some, like Jourdan Anderson, who left the farm on which he, was prior to being freed, with his family, ‘would rather stay here and starve - and die’ than to have his girls ‘brought to shame by...
Furthermore, according to professor Foner, each colony experienced distinct political development. In Virginia, the crown appointed governor, and local elite was in charge of the colony’s advancement. There was also the county court, or the Justices of Peace. Only the colonial assembly was elected. The House of Burgesses, established in 1639, was the first legislature in Jamestown. Contrary to Virginia, Maryland was a proprietary colony settled in 1632. The charter granted Cecilius Calver...
Unlike the well-defined social classes of England, the colonies had a streamline class structure, which gave individuals the chance to rise on the social latter. New settlers living on the coast could become rich by fishing and selling what they caught. If fishing was not a settler's strong point, then they could try their hand at farming. Getting the land to farm on was the easy part. The 'head right' system gave each male 50 acres, and 50 acres to each indentured servant he might bring over. England could not do this because England so defined the social classes and they did not have enough land that they could give to every male and his indentured servant.
The Virginia Plan was written in the year 1787 by James Madison and sponsored by Govenor Edmund Jennings Randolph during the Philadelphia Convention. The plan that was created was the notion of separation of powers into the executive, legislative, and judicial branch, and not favored by smaller states because of population issues. A bicameral legislature was made with houses that are based proportionally off of population in a state. The upper house would be elected by the lower house and the lower house would be elected by the people. Both houses were based on population. The states with a larger population such as Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts benefited most from this plan. The legislative branch had the power to rebut state laws
Early English settlers in the lower Chesapeake Bay region learned to cultivate tobacco from the Native Americans and it would prove to have profound influence in the development of Chesapeake society and the colonies of Virginia and Maryland as a whole. Between 1627 and 1669, annual tobacco exports climbed from 250,000 pounds to more than 15 million pounds. (p39. The American Journey). The Chesapeake region became the New World’s largest producer of tobacco. Since tobacco was a labour intensive crop to cultivate, the planters sought indentured servants from England as a source of cheap labour. However many servants died in alarming numbers from disease as a result from the supply of indentured servants declined, and larger planters who were wealthy managed to buy slaves. Slave population increased rapidly from 1,708 in 1660 to 189,000 in 1760. (Smith, Billy G., and Nash. Encyclopedia of American History).
There were other advantages to slavery in the 1600 and 1700's other than working on the plantations.
Just like their religions, Massachusetts gave more power to the people and Virginia gave power to England. In the New England Handout, Mailer describes the difference further, “Unlike in Virginia where a governor is elected from a faraway company in London, and after 1624, by the Crown itself, the ‘freemen’ of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire elect their own governors.” (1) This information describes the contrast in the way a governor gets elected. In Massachusetts, the “freemen”, men who own land, get to vote for their governor, while Virginia’s governor gets appointed by the crown. Virginia’s government also consisted of the Governing Council, rich elites controlling everything, and the House of Burgesses, upper middle-class landowners. The main reason the governments of these colonies differ is the fact that the charter of Virginia created by the Virginia Company resides in England, or in other words it is controlled by the crown. On the other hand, Massachusetts’s charter, created by the Massachusetts Bay Company, resides in the colony, so the colony self-governs itself. This brings forth another comparison of the two colonies; the reason why they were founded.
...h government. For example, in the colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware had direct officials who worked for the King. They supervised the people who worked on the large tracts of land for either political or financial benefits. Most of these colonies were run by a charter agreement that was reviewed by the King. This method of indirect ruling did not require much direct involvement from the King.
Some of the earliest records of slavery date back to 1760 BC; Within such societies, slavery worked in a system of social stratification (Slavery in the United States, 2011), meaning inequality among different groups of people in a population (Sajjadi, 2008). After the establishment of Jamestown in 1607 as the first permanent English Chesapeake colony in the New World that was agriculturally-based; Tobacco became the colonies chief crop, requiring time consuming and intensive labor (Slavery in colonial America, 2011). Due to the headlight system established in Maryland in 1640, tobacco farmers looked for laborers primarily in England, as each farmer could obtain workers as well as land from importing English laborers. The farmers could then use such profits to purchase the passage of more laborers, thus gaining more land. Indentured servants, mostly male laborers and a few women immigrated to Colonial America and contracted to work from four to seven years in exchange for their passage (Norton, 41). Once services ended after the allotted amount of time, th...
Soil is the most important non-renewable resource on any farm. Healthy soil is key to a good