Virginia
Named after the first European born in the new found Americas.
By Luke Knighton Period 4
About Virginia
• Virginia was chartered in 1607 by Sir Walter Raleigh. • Virginia is located in the middle of North Americas
The Surrounding Colonies
• • • • • The surrounding colonies are Kentucky Tennessee North Carolina Maryland
Why was Virginia founded
Virginia was founded when the Europeans were looking for new land and they landed in the wonderful state of Virginia. They decided that they would stay because they found tobacco and good farming land. The Europeans liked the tobacco so they decided on staying and taking the tobacco back to Europe.
Virginias Freedoms
• You have all freedom • There is nobody to tell you that you cant do something or make you do something. • You can practice any that you want to or you can make your own religion.
The “Resources”
• Tobacco for smoking and chewing and you can make a lot of money. • Cattle gives you meat that you can eat. It taste very good if it is cooked on fire • Soy an all natural sauce made from soy bans that you can also eat. • Grapes and wines are grown here they only grown in summer.
The wonderful things you want to know about Virginia
• You get all the tobacco before it is sent to England so you get the best tobacco first. • • You don’t have to pay for any slaves. • • You get land for free and you get paid for claiming land. • • You get a lot of money for claiming land and selling tobacco. • • You make your slaves work for you for a few years in order for you to give them a small piece of land
The things you should also know about Virginia
Tobacco is not healthy and you do not know that. Slaves are bad because the may try to kill you if you are to mean to them. You have to protect yourself and your slaves from the Indians. You have to pay a lot of money to send product back to England.
You have to wait for the slaves to build your home and other things you think is necessary to live.