Chesapeake Colonies
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The Chesapeake Colonies were the
History
Settlements of the Chesapeake region grew slowly due to diseases such as malaria. Most of these settlers were male immigrants from England who died soon after their arrival. Due to the majority being men, eligible women did not remain single for long. The native-born population eventually became immune to the Chesapeake diseases and these colonies were able to continue through all the hardships.
The Chesapeake region had a one-crop economy, based on tobacco. This contributed to the demand for slave labor in the Southern colonies. Tobacco also depleted nutrients in the soil,
See also
- Atlantic Creole
- British colonization of North America
- Colonial families of Maryland
- Colonial South and the Chesapeake
- First Families of Virginia
- History of White Americans in Baltimore
- Old Stock Americans
- Province of Maryland
- Thirteen Colonies
- Tobacco colonies
References
- ^ Lee Pelham Cotton (February 1998). "Tobacco: Colonial Cultivation Methods - Historic Jamestowne Part of Colonial National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-231-14035-5.
- ISBN 978-0-8147-5670-6.
- Mark C. Carnes & John A. Garraty, The American Nation: A History of the United States, Pearson Education, 2006.
Further reading
- Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. "Animals into the wilderness: the development of livestock husbandry in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 59.2 (2002): 377-408. online
- Bradburn, Douglas M., and John C. Coombs. "SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Reinterpreting the society and economy of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake." Atlantic Studies 3.2 (2006): 131-157; argues need to study regional tobacco cultures, trade with Caribbean, trade with the Indians, internal markets, shipbuilding, and western land development.
- Kulikoff, Allan. "The economic growth of the eighteenth-century Chesapeake colonies." Journal of Economic History 39.1 (1979): 275-288.
- Menard, Russell R. "The tobacco industry in the Chesapeake colonies, 1617-1730: An interpretation." in The Atlantic Slave Trade (Routledge, 2022) pp. 377-445.
- Ragsdale, Bruce A. "George Washington, the British tobacco trade, and economic opportunity in prerevolutionary Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 97.2 (1989): 132-162.