Economic: producing, developing, managing wealth and resourcesColonial Williamsburg shops

The Virginia colony and England depended on each other economically. They were economically interdependent.

Sewing with needles from England

•England needed raw materialsraw materials, such as lumber and tobacco.

•Virginia needed manufactured goodsmanufactured goods, such as furniture, tools, needles, and muskets.

Jamestown was established (started) by the VirginiaVirginia Company of Company of LondonLondon as an economic venture. The Virginia Company hoped to make a huge profit on their investment.

The Discovery, Susan Constant, and Godspeed docked at Jamestown

Seal of the Virginia Company

•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.

Tobacco curing

Tobacco field

Tobacco was used for currency (money) for more than 200 years. It was called “green gold.”

Export: sell out of the country

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

•There were no banks in colonial Virginia.

•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.

The tailor is measuring a gentleman for a vest.

He will buy it on credit.

Debts were recorded in a ledger book, written with a quill pen.

Political: having to do with government

The English flag

The Houses of

Parliament, where

English laws were made

The Capitol at Williamsburg, where the House of Burgesses met to make Virginia’s laws

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

•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.

•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 BurgessesLegislative: making laws

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.

•The Anglican church, the official church of England, was also the official church of the Virginia colony.

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

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

•Colonists inherited land from their

parents, just like people in England.

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.

Food and fashion in colonial Virginia were much like food and fashion in England.Recreation and sports were copied from Great Britain (England) also.

What were the major causes of conflict between Virginia and England?

Map of England

Early map of Virginia

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

Finance: pay for Source:beginningAuthority: power to enforce laws (make people obey)

The colonists favored local assemblies. England wanted Parliament to rule the colonies.

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.

•Over who would pay for the French and Indian War