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Without a profitable export such as sugar or tobacco, New Englanders turned to fishing and lumber for products. On the contrary, the economy concentrated on family ranches supplying food for their own needs and a small commercial surplus. The government of Massachusetts mirrored the Puritans’ spiritual and social idea. Longing to govern the colony without foreign intrusion and to avoid non-Puritans from manipulating decision making, the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company traveled to America, taking the deed with them and converting a business document into a system of government. Initially, the eight shareholders selected the men who controlled the settlement. A cluster of deputies voted by freemen was adjoined to establish the General …show more content…

Indentured servants rarely reached full church admittance or received grants of land after finishing their period of service. Many turned into disenfranchised wage earners. Escalating numbers of Europeans liked smoking and claimed the tobacco plant had remedial aids. As a product with an increasing mass market in Europe, tobacco became Virginia’s alternate for treasure. It not only enhanced a rising group of tobacco planters but also affiliates of the colonial government who allotted adequate land to themselves. The expansion of tobacco cultivation made a discrete community with few villages and little social unity. It enthused a get-rich-quick mindset and a frantic rush for property and employment. Maryland was founded in 1632 as a proprietary colony, a concede of land and administrative rule to a solitary individual, in the Chesapeake town. This was Cecilius Calvert, the son of a lately departed favorite of King Charles I. The charter allotted Calvert landlord of the colony and allowed him “full, free, and absolute power,” with regulator of commerce and the merit to initiate all legislation, amid a designated council limited to approving or vetoing his

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