Chesapeake Colonies, Maryland and Virginia, grew slowly from 1607 to 1630 due to the low-lying 's highly environment. Stagnant water, human waste, , and salt poisoning produced a mortality rate of 28 percent. Within three years of coming to the colony, 40 to 50 percent of the indentured servants, who made up the majority of the population, died from typhus, and before finishing their contracts. By 1700, settlement patterns tended toward the healthier Piedmont area, and the importation of slaves directly from Africa boosted the population.
As the tobacco colonies' populations increased, so did their production of tobacco, their principal source of revenue and currency. Plantations were set out in three-to-ten-acre plots for tobacco along the waterways of Maryland and Virginia, extending almost 200 miles in length and varying from 3 to 72 miles in width, which gave oceangoing ships access to almost 2,000 miles of waterways for transporting hogsheads of tobacco. Ship captains searched throughout Chesapeake Bay for the larger planters' wharves with storehouses, called factories, to buy tobacco for merchants. Small planters also housed their crops at these large wharves. Planters turned to corn and wheat production in the eighteenth century.
The county seat remained the central aspect of local government, yet it generally held only a courthouse, an Anglican church, a , a country store, and a number of homes. A sense of oblige was conserved within the church government and the militia. Books and pamphlets imported from London retained the English culture and a sense of civic responsibility.
There are two colonies that were known as the Chesapeake Colonies, Maryland and Delaware. They got that name for their proximity to Chesapeake Bay.
Maryland and Virginia were Chesapeake colonies
why Did the Chesapeake colonies not get their fundings from independent entrepreneurs?
tobacco
The colony that was on the Chesapeake Bay was the Chesapeake Bay Colony.
Most were Jerichoholics;)
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why Did the Chesapeake colonies not get their fundings from independent entrepreneurs?
tobacco
slowly
Since the climate of the chesapeake colonies was so much like that of the middle colonies they had very good soil in the chesapeake colonies. Deciding to grow a lot of tobacco. Tobacco was the main crop though there was some shipbuilding and shipping to ship the tobacco to the other colonies and back to England.
The colony that was on the Chesapeake Bay was the Chesapeake Bay Colony.
The workers in the colonies were the indians.
The women in the Chesapeake colonies made men actually think and helped with reproduction. No, I will not explain the reproduction process.
What caused the slave population in the Chesapeake colonies to grow?
TOBACCO!
Most were Jerichoholics;)
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Tobacco