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The
Virginia
The Virginia Colony
Colony
Founded in 1607
Founded in 1607
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Trades/Farming
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Apprentice
Blacksmith
Cooper
Farmer
Milliner
Printer
Shoemaker
Silversmith
Tailor
Wheelwright
Wigmaker
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Family Life
• During the seventeenth
century disease and
sickness split up many
families causing only
one partner left with all
of the children and
sometimes many
orphans
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/surviving.cfm
Wigmaker
• Made wigs and
hairpieces for ladies and
gentlemen
• Cut and dressed hair
• Sold soaps, perfumes,
powders, tonics and lice
cures
• Trained apprentices
• Offered immersion
bathing facilities
http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer07/images/Pi
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Communication
• Most people
communicated by the
word of mouth
• Some people
communicated by writing
letters to someone and a
friend of theirs usually
transported the letter
• Later on a newspaper was
printed and it told about
the local events and
things that were going on
in Virginia
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Relations with Other People Groups
• When Virginia was first
settled the relationship
with the Powhatan
Indians was peaceful
• When the colonists
decided to stay and settle
the land the Powhatan
went out of control and
the relationship between
them wasn’t peaceful
anymore
http://daisybellexplores.com/images/na/pow_wrap.
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Religion
• Virginia was a mixture
of many different
religions including
Baptists and Anglicans
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Education
• Most kids were taught at home by
their parents or by a private tutor.
When the kids in Virginia became
teenagers they went off to college
or go to Europe. Here like the other
colonies southern girls did not go to
school.
Daily Life
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Horse and buggy travel
Or on foot but people didn’t travel on
foot in the winter because of the
harsh weather conditions
Also people traveled on ships if
traveling a long distance
Cider and whiskey were the most
common drinks
Ate dinners as a family, afternoon
teas or BBQ’s arranged by the town,
and most people socialized in groups
more than with just their family
Meals consisted of seasonal fruits
and vegetables, game (meat), fish,
waterfoul, and nuts
Most people lived in houses made of
wood or logs
Life in Virginia was challenging for
everyone but women had a hard lifethey spent most of their time caring
for their family
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Climate
• Long hot humid
summers
• Mild Winters
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