Virginia

II. What reasons
S.K. Made the Colony of Viginia to make first successful colony. Named that because of their Virgin queen.

III. What was grown/Occupations
Mainly tobacco, corn, squash, cotton, wheat, rice and indigo. Tobacco grew well near Chesapeake Bay.

IV. What was made/Occupations
Virginia Company of London was made by merchants. Had timber/lumber to sell to England and made axels and wheels from the wood.

V. Imports and Exports
They exported tobacco timber and imported clothing and tools. Jamestown imported women and slaves and indentured servants. Cash Crops were sold to england for very high prices.

VI. Problems and difficulties
SK. Problems for the Virginia Colony was that the landscape didn't provide food, farming area and animals to eat like buffalo. In 1609-1610 The Starving Time was happening and Jamestown's population dropped by more than half.

A. Clothing
Women wore bustles and bows to enhance their glutius maximus. Clothes were handed down in your will because they are so valuble. Once they are worn out, they would use the cloth for other things such as blankets or newer clothes. they sure were economic!

C. Government
S.K. In Virginia, they had a voting group called the House of Burgesess.

VIII. Relationships with Natives
==== The jamestown forteress inhabitents were very unfriendly to the native americans. When the Virginians were at war with the Native Americans, Christopher Newport found out that being friends with Powhatan was vital until they took Pocahantas so they started war again, but they murdered Powhatan so the Virginians slowly took over Virginia and the Native Americans retreated so it completed the Virginia Colony. ====

Each plantation owner had at least 100 slaves. The more slaves they had, the higher they were in society.
X. Interesting other tidbits. Jamestown was surrounded by a triangular fort. The people of Jamestown grew crops outside of the fort. John Rolfe found tobacco.