The Transformation of the Virginia over the years greatly influenced and shaped the Virginia of today. Virginia was founded by the Loyal Company in 1624 as a royal colony and is named after the “Virgin Queen” which it what Queen Elizabeth queen of England was referred as. Jamestown, Virginia was founded as a business venture by Captain John Smith to make profit for the shareholders and it was also a hotspot for gold which was a highly profited item. The later development of tobacco as stated in Document B would be the main cash crop of Jamestown and would begin to provide a sorely needed economic base for the colony. Tobacco was the main source of the colony’s economical growth and was in great need of being produced.
As a wealthy white male, he would promote the excellent uses of sugar. It would be helpful to have a diary or entry of a consumer of sugar and be able to analyze truly how much obsession there was in the minds of them. The high demands for sugar created a high demand in laborers as well. Just like a store or business, when a product is selling rapidly that company will expand their working forces to be able to manufacture more. The slave trade was involved also in the Sugar Trade because of the fact that the laborers that made the sugar were African slaves.
The sugar trade was driven by land and climate, consumer demand, and the economy. Land and climate was a major factor in driving the sugar trade. Included in Document 1 is a Colonial Map of the Caribbean. The map presents that most Caribbean land are colonized by the British, French, and Spanish. Referring the map to Document 2, explains that an ideal climate average for the growth of cane sugar is sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit to ninety degrees Fahrenheit which slaves are forcefully working and growing sugar out in the heat.
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.
As more settlers came in the situation kept on becoming worse, until 1612 when John Rolfe began the planting of tobacco, which was soon known as the cash crop for the colonies. As time passed tobacco plantations were opening up every where and there was a great need for more labor. In the beginning white indentured servants were used,
Sugar was used as a sweetener in other imports such as chocolate, coffee, and tea. Tea became one of the most important beverages in the United Kingdom and further expedited the need for sugar(doc. 4). The British sugar imported from 1700 to 1770 increased from 280700 to 1379200 cwt. because of the dependency on the product (doc.
The cotton gin did not only change the output of cotton in the south it also changed the whole entire country. It expanded slavery, created sectional conflict, fueled the American Industrial Revolution, and it also led to the America’s bloodiest war: The American Civil War. By Early 19th century cotton became King in United States, and slave labor was in critical demand. By 1790 slavery was a declining institution, in 1790 there are only about seven hundred thousands of slaves in United States, but in 1860 right before the out break of the American Civil War there are approximate four million slaves in United States. (Boyer et al.
Jarrod Tasnady 9/20/14 Economics played a huge role in the establishment of European colonies in North America. From the beginning in settlements such as Jamestown and Plymouth went nearly extinct. They were saved by advancements in the economy. Due to agricultural discoveries farmers were able to produce a high demand in tobacco. This is what led to the establishment of not only Jamestown and Plymouth but as well as many other future settlements.
Mississippi was admitted as a slave state to the union because of the intense profitability of cotton and the use of slaves. The war of 1812 would drastically change the relationships of plantation owners and the slaves that they owned. The owners begin to realize if they treated slaves like humans it would likely decrease the odds that the slaves would rebel against them. Slaves begin to migrate into Mississippi very heavily during this time also. The slave trade saw massive amounts of slaves being brought into this area at this time.
After a brief period of experimenting with indentured European labor, the British turned to large scale importation of Africans to be used as slaves on the sugar plantations. The plantation dominated economic life in every sense. It occupied the best lands, the laws supported the slave system, and in general all commercial and other economic activity depended on the rhythm of activity of the plantation. Upon Emancipation, many of the ex-slaves settled down as small farmers in the mountains, cultivating steep hill slopes far away from the plantations. With many Africans settling into the beautiful landscape of Jamaica, new musical dawns were on the horizon.