Four Events That Shaped The Development Of The Virginia Colony
Reflection #1 – Chesapeake
The author states that the four events that shaped the development of the Virginia colony are the first shipment of tobacco in England, the establishment of a new governmental organization in 1619, the Indian uprising and massacre of 1622, and the census of 1624/25. I do agree with the author, these four events did in fact help shape the development of the Virginia colony.
The distribution of tobacco was adopted by John Rolfe and his associates in 1612 from the Caribbean. It was one of the first agricultural practices in the colony that prospered. Other crops like barley, oats, and English wheat did not prosper at all. The tobacco crop became a staple crop in the Virginia colony and it changed the colony as a whole. The social aspect of the colony …show more content…
This did not happen because it was designed as a profit making strategic society from the beginning. Their plans of fur trading, commercial farming, and manufacturing all did not work. The fur traders encountered Indian hostility, commercial farming didn’t work because of the absence of a ready market, and manufacturing was delayed because of the lack of knowledge in the local minerals. Their plan did not work at all but tobacco comes to save the Maryland colony. Maryland soon was known as the ‘tobacco colony”. Maryland and Virginia might have had similarities with economic and demographic experiences but they were very different when it came to politics and religion. The Maryland colony wanted a family centered colony but that didn’t happen either. They had a religious division between gentry and servants. Gentry members were Catholic and servants where mainly Protestants. Most servants were young males who were unmarried. Men outnumbered women more than three to one, married late in their twenties, and died before their mid-forties. They lacked strong family ties and often didn’t have parental
The author states that the four events that shaped the development of the Virginia colony are the first shipment of tobacco in England, the establishment of a new governmental organization in 1619, the Indian uprising and massacre of 1622, and the census of 1624/25. I do agree with the author, these four events did in fact help shape the development of the Virginia colony.
The distribution of tobacco was adopted by John Rolfe and his associates in 1612 from the Caribbean. It was one of the first agricultural practices in the colony that prospered. Other crops like barley, oats, and English wheat did not prosper at all. The tobacco crop became a staple crop in the Virginia colony and it changed the colony as a whole. The social aspect of the colony …show more content…
This did not happen because it was designed as a profit making strategic society from the beginning. Their plans of fur trading, commercial farming, and manufacturing all did not work. The fur traders encountered Indian hostility, commercial farming didn’t work because of the absence of a ready market, and manufacturing was delayed because of the lack of knowledge in the local minerals. Their plan did not work at all but tobacco comes to save the Maryland colony. Maryland soon was known as the ‘tobacco colony”. Maryland and Virginia might have had similarities with economic and demographic experiences but they were very different when it came to politics and religion. The Maryland colony wanted a family centered colony but that didn’t happen either. They had a religious division between gentry and servants. Gentry members were Catholic and servants where mainly Protestants. Most servants were young males who were unmarried. Men outnumbered women more than three to one, married late in their twenties, and died before their mid-forties. They lacked strong family ties and often didn’t have parental