Virginia Colony Research Paper

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Our colony is Virginia, a great colony located on the east coast of North America.(http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Virginia/VirginiaNameOrigin.html)

It is located underneath New Jersey and Maryland. Since it was founded in 1607 by european settlers, it was named after England’s Queen at the time, Queen Elizabeth I. Now although the colony was founded in 1607, it was not established as a colony until 1776.(http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Colonial_Virginia)

During the time of the colonization of the new world, the British were in competition with the Spanish. They had colonized in the new world for financial benefits and a new territory to trade with them.They wanted a offspring country to grow their economy.(http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Colonial_Virginia)

There is also a picture of where the colony is located, and of course the national flag. (http://www.infoplease.com/us-states/virginia.html)
Virginia has many inlets on the shore line so trading is not difficult. Everywhere in the colony, are self-sufficient farms. (http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Colonial_Virginia)

In colonial Virginia, the education was the family's responsibility, not the government. No public transportation or schools were available. No one was running the board either for education. It was all the responsibility of the family’s to get their children an education. It took 11 years after arriving in the new colony for people to actually make a school and college. (http://www.virginiaplaces.org/population/schools.html)

Daily life in colonial virginia for children was they help with your work plus that also teaches your child self discipline and they’ll know what to do when they are grown up. Schools are recommended but they are not forced to do it. When a child is 14 they go to become apprentices to learn about their jobs. jobs could be blacksmith, silversmith, and a hunter.

(http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/religion/religionva.cfm)

One child in five died before its first birthday, and half had lost at least one parent by their thirteenth birthday. People of all ages died from “agues” and “fevers”—some of which we could recognize as smallpox, typhoid, whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, pneumonia, and influenza. A given husband, wife, and children might suddenly become a husband and children if the mother died; then the man took a new wife; they had a few children; then the husband died and the wife married again. (http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume4/february%2006/virginiawomen.cfm)

Virginia was very culturally diverse. No real belief was the right one. Everyone brought their own beliefs and lived according to what they believe is right. Due to it being a very large trading port they attracted many different merchants from various different backgrounds. People stayed isolated with people from their backgrounds to stay with the familiarity.