They were interested in sources of gold. Not finding great fortune and treasures, the colonists began growing tobacco by 1612 for shipment back to England. Tobacco provided a economic base for the settlement. In 1619 the colonists formed their first representative legislature called the House of Burgesses.
Tobacco cultivation and exports formed an essential component of the American colonial economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tobacco plantations were distinct from other cash crops in terms of agricultural demands, trade, slave labor, and plantation culture. Many influential American revolutionaries, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, owned tobacco plantations, and were financially devastated by debt to British tobacco merchants shortly before the American Revolution. John Rolfe, a colonist from Jamestown, was the first to grow tobacco in America. He arrived in Virginia with tobacco seeds procured on an earlier voyage to Trinidad, and in 1612 he harvested his inaugural crop for sale on the European market.
B), along with his many children. While aboard the Arbella, John Winthrop wrote A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 (doc. A). This sermon said that God wanted them to all work together as one even though they all had their differences. If they did not, God would turn from them and they would have an example made of them.
The developing society placed great importance on the establishment of the community. The believed they must work together, including aiding those in need, fearing God would not help them if they did not help each other. In John Winthrop’s 1630 work, A Modell of Christian Charity, he writes “…Wee must delight in eache other; make other’s conditions our own; rejoice together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, always hauveing before our eyes our commission and community in the worke, as members of the same body… “ (Doc. A). He writes that by not embracing the community, God would abandon them and they would be a failure and the rest of the world would talk about it.
The puritan society is an orderly, tightly knitted model of a holy community. The tradition puritan village was centered around the Town Hall and the Church as religion was held on top of everything in the society (B). They believed that the limitations of themselves were determined by god, as John Cotton stated “it is therefore fit for every man to be studious of the bounds which the Lord has set” (H). The need to educate the youth and to pass on the knowledge of god was stressed in order for future generations to be included in the holy community as well (E). The community lived under a strict code where pleasure is not allowed as people were expected to put all their heart out for the Lord while working hard to gain the Lord’s approval.
When the Europeans set sail to America they were expecting a life better than they left behind. In the colonies, tension was growing. Two events that clearly show these tensions are theSalem Witchcraft trials in 1692 and the Stono Rebellion in 1793. These tensions grew fromunsettled things in the colonies. Socially, slaves were bottom the class pyramid and were treated bad and this caused them to revolt.
The situation was unavoidable, and destined to happen eventually; however, Bacon’s Rebellion may be attributed to a multitude of causes, all of which lead to strife in the Virginia Colony. In addition, there were a large number of issues within the colony. During this time, the economy was a tremendous concern. Another overriding concern was the tobacco, which was the main agricultural crop, and prices declined as well as increased competition between the colonies. Commercial competition grew between Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas, as well as the English market, which became increasingly restricted.
Her father, originally a Baptist, was strongly influenced by events in the Universalist church that he was converted and raised his family as such. The teachings Clara learned through this family church was that “God encourages all men and women to accept him and charged them to grasp the opportunity to earn salvation-an opportunity open to all”. The Universalist church encouraged being aware of the social happenings around them; to support the education of all youth as well as the idea of charity in the community. While the social teachings of the church were imbued in her, she was never able to fully grasp hold of the actual religion. Clara immersed herself in church work to “keep busy” and help the community around her but never had “deep religious feelings” towards Universalism.
Economic activities were variety of artisans, shopkeepers, and merchants provided services to the growing farming population. The settlement patterns is Plantations and large family farms. Religious groups and religious freedom: 1Puritans- people who want to make church worship simpler. 2Anglicans- a member of a church in England or church communion. 3 Quaker- a group of Christians who use no scripture and believe in great simplicity in daily life.
Another interesting point is that the encomienda grant did not give the Spaniard the right to exercise any political authority over the Indians. However, these distinctions were very difficult to enforce, because there was an ocean between the rulers making the laws and the colonists in charge of the natives. As time went on, the conquerors of New Spain came to expect the encomiendas as their reward, so the practice became an institution and eventually became tradition to divide new