Drift to Independence and War of Independence There cannot be a more disruptive scenario than for a colonial policy system to leave the Mother Country.
Category: Virginia Colonial To 1789
1.3C: Western Land Settlement, Migrations into the Shenandoah Valley: Planter Oligopoly Reaction Formation of Land Development Companies
Recap and Restatement: an Intro The next to last module discussed the formation of the Royalist Tidewater political culture and the the overall economic development-related
1. Settlement of the Piedmont Rise of the Piedmont Plantation Elite
There were several change drivers that affected the economic development strategies of the period. The more important dynamics included: (1) settlement of the Piedmont by
4. Planter Oligopoly Takes Over County, Infiltrates Colony-Level Policy System, and Infuses Political Structures with its Values and Self-Interest: a closed Elite System
It is not often we witness the birth of a political culture by a political entrepreneur. When William Berkeley came to Virginia in 1642 and
3. Virginia: Governor William Berkeley: Virginia’s First Economic Developer Imports a Political Culture
Berkeley was a true “cavalier”, a junior member of the British aristocracy, with a heritage that extended to William the Conqueror. In England, the Berkeley
2. Virginia: the First Gold Rush: the Shredded Community, Counties and No Ports
Module 2 1.2 Virginia: Pre-1642 Virginia Settlement: This module, the first in a four-module Part 1 of this chapter, details the first years of Virginia’s colonial
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