Economic and political developments in Virginia from 1607-1700
On the year of 1607, May 14th, a hundred men sent by the Virginia Company of London, landed at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay which also resulted in the first permanent English settlement. The settlement of the Virginia Colony (Jamestown) was the source of economy of the Chesapeake Bay region and Virginia, during the colonial period was always tied upon the accessibility of plantation and slavery.
On the year of 1607, May 14th, a hundred men sent by the Virginia Company of London, landed at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay which also resulted in the first permanent English settlement. The Virginia Colony was intended to supply England with gold and many other necessities; but instead, the colony were busy struggling with survival for the next four years, with population declining to only 38 inhabitants after a year of settlement. Failing to discover gold or other valuables, the settlers also failed the production of......
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