Colonial Life In America Throughout the Colonial America it is evident that the American Colonies became gradually more stable overtime. This is evident because there was more diverse economies, there was an establishment of a more sophisticated government, and colonies population stabilized as it increased. The colonies survived, and they became free and independent in Colonial America and later in the United States. The economies became more diverse for the fact that there was cash crops. America’s first cash crop was tobacco. Tobacco was shipped from a young English colony in Jamestown in a ship named Elizabeth, bound for London. It included four barrels of tobacco, about four thousand pounds. These four few barrels changed the whole …show more content…
In North Carolina and Chesapeake they were growing tobacco plantations, and in South Carolina and Georgia they were growing rice and indigo, and they were committed to slave labor. Most of South Carolina's population was black, nearly all Africans were imported directly to the colony in the 18th century. Further north, the tobacco colonies of Virginia and Maryland were equally committed to slave labor, but slaves led somewhat different lives there than in the deep South. The African population in these colonies began to replace itself through reproduction as early as 1720. Chesapeake planters continued to import new slaves from Africa, about 70,000 went to Virginia in the 18th century and about twenty-five thousand to Maryland. Permanent English settlement began in the Chesapeake Bay area in 1607 and in Massachusetts in 1620. The histories of the two regions during their first century and a half are almost opposite. Massachusetts settlers were Puritans, they arrived as whole families and sometimes as whole congregations, and they lived by laws derived from the Old Testament. Over time, Virginia was transformed into a slave based tobacco colony where slaves were carefully disciplined, where most white families owned land, and where a wealthy and stable planter-slaveholder class provided much of the leadership of revolutionary and early national America. New England, on …show more content…
The more crops they would produce helped the economy drastically for the fact that they would gain land for the exchange of tobacco. The more land there was, the more people could farm. Population helped Colonial America because people came to the colonies and mostly all the people that came to Colonial America were immigrants. Immigrants were really useful at this time because many farmers needed people to help them with growing crops. The greater amount of immigrants, the increase in crops and money to make the colonies stable. The establishment of government helped Colonial America because of the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was a document that had laws and were made to be followed, because they followed these laws the colony was successful. Another example is the different kinds of government that were established. There was mistakes throughout the way to rule a colony and the freedom of the people, but eventually they learned and they got better at it which made colonies advance more in population, orders, and crops.