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Life in the 1600s was hard in Chesapeake. Colonists faced brutal summer heat and humidity, spells of hunger, heavy labor, outbreaks of conflict, and illness. Along with the usual maladies, diseases for which they had no immunity ravaged newcomers. Limited medical knowledge and lack of larger family support made their lives even more precarious. A high Death Rate of young people and the chronic shortage of women forced the settlers to rely on recent immigrants to renew their population. Not until the 1700s could American-born colonists increase their numbers

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What were the crops in the chesapeake colonies?

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.


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How did the tobacco economy draw the Chesapeake colonies into the greater Atlantic world?

First of all, tobacco is not good for no one and even in those times people knew this. People in those times loved it and it soon became in demand. Instead of using money they used tobacco and was so much in demand it was like gold. Soon people from around the world was wanting this commodity and it made people in the Chesapeake colonies to expand. By expanding, soon more English people came over and wanted land and in order to work that much land they had alot of indentured servants and farmers. At this time, was the beginning of enslaving of African slaves to work on tobacco plantations. The wealthy soon became even wealthier using indentured servants and African slaves so the white population and tobacco became increasingly large and wealthier.

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