The first signs of recovery were seen in tobacco cultivation and the related cigarette industry, followed by coal mining, and increasing industrialization within the state. Virginia's economy was devastated during the Civil War and disrupted in the Reconstruction era (1865–1877), when it was administered as Military District Number One. Unionists in western Virginia created the separate state of West Virginia in 1863. It became the major theater of war during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Virginia was the largest state population wise to join the Confederate States in 1861. The population grew slowly from 700,000 in 1790, to 1 million in 1830, to 1.2 million in 1860.
The Constitutions of 18 expanded suffrage but did not equalize white male apportionment statewide. Planters adopted mixed farming, with an emphasis on wheat and livestock, which required less labor. presidents were Virginians: George Washington, the "Father of his country" and after 1800, "The Virginia Dynasty" of presidents for 24 years: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.ĭuring the first half of the 1800s, tobacco prices declined and tobacco lands lost much of their fertility. The state of Kentucky separated from Virginia in 1792. Virginia was the tenth state to ratify the U.S.
They were important in the Declaration of Independence, writing the Constitutional Convention (and preserving protection for the slave trade), and establishing the Bill of Rights. Virginia planters had a major role in gaining independence and in the development of Democratic-Republican ideals of the United States. In 1776, Virginia and the rest of the American Colonies, would declare independence from Great Britain, helping form the United States. Baptist and Methodist preachers brought the Great Awakening, welcoming black members, and leading to many evangelical and racially integrated churches. The colony was dominated by rich planters, who were also in control of the established Anglican Church. The Virginia Colony became the wealthiest and most populated of the Thirteen Colonies in North America with an elected General Assembly. After 1700, there was continued conflict with natives east of the Alleghenies, especially in the French and Indian War (1754–1763), when the tribes were allied with the French. Warfare with the Virginia Indian nations had been an ongoing factor during the 17th century. While the plantations thrived because of the high demand for tobacco, most white settlers would raise their families on subsistence farms. By 1750, the primary cultivators of the cash crop were West African slaves. After 1662, the colony turned black slavery into a hereditary racial caste. It was chiefly grown on plantations, using primarily slaves for the intensive hand labor involved. Soon thereafter during the early 1600s, tobacco emerged as a profitable export. In 1610, survivors would abandon Jamestown, although they returned after meeting a resupply convoy in the James River. The famine during the harsh winter of 1609 forced the colonists to eat leather from their clothes and boots, and resort to cannibalism. The Virginia Company colony was looking for gold and spices, and land to grow crops, however they would find no fortunes in the area, and struggled to maintain a food supply. In 1607, English colonization began in Virginia with Jamestown, which would become the first permanent English settlement in North America. The written History of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 1500s, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt.
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