The Virginia

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The Virginia Colony and England 1607-1776
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What was theVirginia colony's economic relationsh
ip with England?
Economic producing, developing, managing wealth
and resources
Colonial Williamsburg shops
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The Virginia colony and England depended on each
other economically. They were economically
interdependent.

• England needed raw materials, such as lumber and
  tobacco.
• Virginia needed manufactured goods, such as
  furniture, tools, needles, and muskets.

Sewing with needles from England
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The Discovery, Susan Constant, and Godspeed
docked at Jamestown
Jamestown was established (started) by
the Virginia Company of London as an economic
venture. The Virginia Company hoped to make a
huge profit on their investment.

• The Virginia Company were a group of people who
  got others to invest their money.
• After the Jamestown settlement made money, the
  investors were supposed to get a profit from
  their money.

Seal of the Virginia Company
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Tobacco field
Tobacco became the chief export product.
Export sell out of the country
Tobacco was used for currency (money) for more
than 200 years. It was called green gold.
Tobacco curing
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• There were no banks in colonial Virginia.

• Virginia, like other English colonies, printed
  its own currency (money). But people rarely used
  currency. They used tobacco much more.

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• Consumers would buy goods from merchants and
  shopkeepers on credit, and would pay their debts
  when the crops were harvested.
• Many people bartered, or traded things for other
  things, without using money. Tobacco was highly
  valued for barter.

Debts were recorded in a ledger book, written
with a quill pen.
The tailor is measuring a gentleman for a
vest. He will buy it on credit.
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What was the POLITICAL relationship between the
Virginia colony and England?
The English flag
The Houses of Parliament, where English laws were
made
The Capitol at Williamsburg, where the House of
Burgesses met to make Virginias laws
Political having to do with government
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• The Virginia colony was always subject to English
  law.
• The Virginia Company of London had to get a
  charter (permission) from the English Parliament
  and King before they could begin their settlement
  of Jamestown.
• The governor of the Jamestown settlement was
  appointed by the directors of the Virginia
  Company..
• In 1624, King James took over Virginia and made
  it a Royal Colony. The people of Jamestown still
  had to obey English law.

Buckingham Palace, where the king lived
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• The government of the Virginia colony was based
  on the English model of a representative
  government.

• The House of Burgesses was modeled after the
  English Parliament.

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• The House of Burgesses was the first
  representative government in the colony and in
  North and South America.
• Today it is called the General Assembly and is
  the oldest legislative body in the western
  hemisphere.

Patrick Henry speaks in the House of Burgesses
Legislative making laws
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What were the social and cultural influences
from England?
Social living together in communities Cultural
all the ways a certain group of people live.
Culture includes religion, family structure,
recreation, holidays, art, dress, and language.
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• The Anglican church, the official church of
  England, was also the official church of the
  Virginia colony.

• Colonists lived together in families, just like
  families in England. Rich people had servants,
  just like rich people in England.

Bruton Parish Church, in Williamsburg, is an
Anglican church. The congregation was formed in
1674. This building was finished in 1715.

• Colonists inherited land from their parents, just
  like people in England.

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People raised the same kinds of farm animals,
that they used to raise in England. The first
farm animals had to be brought over from England
on ships.
Colonial children from the English culture played
the same games as children in England played.
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Food and fashion in colonial Virginia were much
like food and fashion in England.
Recreation and sports were copied from Great
Britain (England) also.
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Early map of Virginia
Virginia and the American Revolution
What were the major causes of conflict between
Virginia and England?
Map of England
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• Conflict developed between England and the
  Virginia colony
• over taxation
• over lack of representation

The Tower Bridge in London, England
Virginians did not want to pay more and more
taxes to England.
The English Parliament made laws affecting
Virginia, without giving Virginians a chance to
vote on those laws.
A part of the fence at Buckingham Palace in London
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• Over who would pay for the French and Indian War

England wanted the colonies to finance a large
part of the cost of the war, by paying higher
taxes.

• over the source of political authority.

The colonists favored local assemblies. England
wanted Parliament to rule the colonies.
Authority power to enforce laws (make people
obey)
Finance pay for
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