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Virginia  became a royal colony in 1624. Virginia was founded because of the desire to gain more wealth and convert the Native American Indians to Christianity.  The colony itself was founded to create wealth for the king and Queen of England, so gold mining and cash crop farming was very common. Because of the success of the Jamestown colony. Virginia itself was one of the first colonies to be established

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The Virginia Colony stretches from the Chesapeake Bay all the way to the Appalachian Mountains. This colony was apart of the Southern Colonial Region meaning it consisted of river valleys full of fertile rich soil and long coasts full of Tobacco farms.

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The landscape in the Virginia colony included coastal plains, valleys, and mountains. Because the colony was located in the Southern Colony, the climate was one of the warmest of the three regions, and due to its climate, the spread of disease was higher than the colder Northern Colonies to its North, meaning many easily caught diseases.

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In 1619, a General Assembly came together and talked, bringing limited self-government to America. That same year the first slaves were brought to Virginia. For most of the 1600's, white indentured servants worked the colony's tobacco fields, but by 1705 the Virginia colony had become an all black slave society.

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The Economy of Virginia is well balanced with diverse sources of income, military installations, cattle, tobacco and peanut farming in Southern Virginia. The military installations protect the colony, the cattle produce  meat and milk.
Tobacco was good to sell in the market to get gold. Peanut farming produce peanut butter. There was no slavery and the most popular occupation was farming.

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Due to the climate being very hot, it was perfect for growing cash crops such as tobacco tea and cotton, making farmers of Virginia very wealthy because of their riches. Because it is very hot and disease spread well, outbreaks of malaria and yellow fever made life expectancy in the south lower. To keep cool, they used homemade fans and would have slaves cool them off.

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Virginia's English colonists believed in the established church (Church of England). The law of the land from 1624 mandated that white Virginians worshiped in the Church of England and supported its upkeep with their taxes.