"Voice of Freedom"
1- What advantages does the Virginia Company see in the promotion of family life in the colony of Virginia?
In that time there were a lot of men comparing to the women. The rate is like four of five men to one woman. So, the Virginia Company wanted to give the man servants the demand to have him works in the tobacco fields. So, the Company were sending some tobacco as brides to immigrant women. the Virginia strategy is to control the men servants by prepared marriages to the immigrant women.
2- Why does the company prefer that the women marry landowning men rather than servants?
Because, it's like a business deal between the immigrant women sender and the the Virginia Company. Men outnumbered women about four to one so even a servant could marry a wealthy plantation owner It seems like, exchange between women and tobacco. So, the women sender asked the Lord of the Virginia Company to preserve families and prefer the married men first then the single ones.
"Give Me LIberty"
1- How did the tobacco economy draw the Chesapeake colonies into the greater Atlantic world?
Tobacco started to become really popular the colonies wanted to be imported and started the basis of the economy. Integrated into the greater Atlantic trade, which caused an increase in slavery.
2- In what ways did the economy, government, and household structure differ in New England And the Chesapeake colonies?
In New England, settlers arrived in families. These settlers were older than those in VA and MA and more balanced in the ratio of gender. MA was organized in towns which had local government. Land was handled with grants and while land was used for agriculture, it also remained common. Each town had a church and school. The government was controlled by shareholders of the MA Bay Company, which created the General Court, enabling churchgoing freemen to vote for governor.
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