Virginia Colony
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The Virginia Colony was founded by John Smith in 1607. Smith was from England and founded Jamestown along with a few other colonists.
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In 1606, a couple of rich London businessmen asked King James I for a charter to establish a colony in the New World. They formed the Virginia Company and left to establish a permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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Most of the people that settled in the Virginia Colony were British. This occurred because John Smith and his crew were the people who founded Jamestown and wanted a colony.
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The Virginia Colony's landscape included coastal plains, valleys, and mountains. The warmer climate and the land meant that it was possible to grow crops throughout the entire year.
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A man named John Rolfe discovered a crop called tobacco. Soon indentured servants began to flood Virginia
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Law mandated Virginians worship in the Anglican Church. Virginians were non-tolerant of non-Christian religions.
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Virginia boasted the oldest popularly elected legislature on the continent. Its House of Burgesses was founded in 1619.
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