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Colonial Massachusetts And Colonial Virginia

Throughout 1607 to 1750 colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia were being settled and growing. These two states grew up very different from each other in aspects such as their economic development and it's affect on their politics.
In 1607, Jamestown in Virginia was the first permanent English settlement. It was in the Chesapeake Bay area. The people abroad the ships had ideas in their heads of digging and mining to find ways of obtaining gold, silver, and copper. It was their incentive to coming to the New World, to earn money. This turned out to be bad for them. They did not gain what they had hoped to get, instead they couldn't grow crop and faced wilderness problems. The people were not experienced with manual labor to be able to build up this town. They needed people with skills in agriculture and could work.
The London Company who owned the land did not focus their attention on telling people to farm and better improve the life there. The London Company knew......


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