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"Virginia was once was all of America."

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The climate which is hot and wet is ideal for the soil and for growing tobacco, rice, and other cash crops.
They also had mild winters.

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"In, Virginia where Anglicans were in the majority, attendance at Anglican Sunday worship was compulsory."
Church of England.

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Founder: Sir Walter Raleigh and the Virginia Company

Reasons: To conquer more land.
Wanted to find more gold.
"Wealthy colonists took advantage of these conditions by establishing large farms called plantations.

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Virginias early settlers were wealthy landowners and the most important people were tobacco planters, workers, slaves, and indentured servants.
English landowners, skilled laborers ( shoemakers, bricklayers, tailors.) people seeking profit

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"The region featured broad rivers and vast wetlands that merged with the sea."
Virginia also had coastal low lands and wooded mountains.

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"The economy of Virginia was based on tobacco."
Tobbaco planters needed vast areas of land to succeed.

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"Virginia elected an assembly, called House of Burgess, in 1619."
"In 1661, the House of Burgess passed a law that made African workers slaves for life."
"By 1700, Virginia had more than 16,000 enslaved Africans- more than one-fourth of the colony's population."