In 1585 Englishman traveled to Roanoke Island which they named Virginia. Virginia was colonized in 1607, which makes it the first English colony in the New World that thrived. The Virginia Colony has some popular nicknames. These nicknames were Old Dominion, Mother of Presidents, Mother of States, The Cavalier State, and Mother of Statesman. The Virginia Colony was home to a lot of religious teachings such as Anglicans, Baptist, and others.
The Virginia Colony’s trade and exports included cotton, livestock, grains, tobacco, vegetables, and fruits. Its natural resources were forests, fish, agriculture lands, coastal plains, valleys, and mountains. The Virginia Colony was one of Great Britain's colonies, and was made a royal colony in 1624. It declared its independence from Great
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Rhode Island was colonized in 1636, which makes it the 6th colony in the New World. The Rhode Island Colony was founded by Roger Williams who paid the Indians for the land because he and many other people thought that it was the right thing to do. He was a former colonist and religious exile from the Massachusetts Colony, it got its name from a man named Adriaen Block a Dutch explorer who named it “Roodt Eylandt.” The Rhode Island Colony was home to the first Jewish synagogue and Baptist church in the New World.
There were major industries in Rhode Island Colony included, fishing, whaling, manufacturing on their ships, export of rum manufacturing, and just a little bit of farming. Just like Virginia Colony the Rhode Island Colony has a lot of nicknames such as, Ocean State, Little Rhody, the Plantation State, the Smallest State, the Land of Roger Williams, and the Southern gateway to New England. In 1761 The Rhode Island Colony was home to 3 sugar refineries and 22 distilleries. Unlike the Virginia Colony, in the Rhode Island Colony crops are harder to grow and diseases were harder to spread because of the frigid