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Wars of succession to wars of control
French & Indian War over Ohio Valley settlement (poorly defined bounds, Treaty of 6 Nations of Iroquois, opposing claims)
Great Valley of VA/Shenandoah Valley
Spotswood ventures (grants, order of knights, Spotslyvania & Brunswick, no quitrents)
Immigration: German & Scotch-Irish (diffs in displacement & settlement)
Diff society from older area (no plantations, limited slavery)

Debate on capital locale; new gov Lee
Idyllic society on outside, new struggles
-Recession on tobacco bc of war
-“Empire of Goods”: dependency on Brit merchants, high amts of debt
-Decline in “civic virtue” (electoral practices)
-Growing religious dissenters; Great Awakening & Separate Baptists (break from Anglican authority)
-Fear around slaves (revolts & runaways)
-Affectionate childrearing & roles of women

Rev. James Blair: stubborn abt college support
Gov Nicholson, then Andros (out bc tension abt change & Blair)
Nicholson back, capital now at Mid Plantation w/ new layout, taking power from Council & H of B (plural offices)
New govs, no gov
Spotswood: defense & native solutions (killed Blackbeard), tobacco & land plan
Drysdale
Gooch, H of B shuffle, tobacco plan (“place bill” & angry riots to calm), fighting Spain

Rising patriarch power (racial, gender, political)
Uneasy Kingdoms
Tobacco growth & shipment
Consignment & factor
Great Chain of Being in VA
Households: husbands, women (power, job), children, servants & slaves (criminal influx)
Slave society (ownership, life, family ties, Tidewater v Piedmont)
Ties of kinship & friends; neighborhoods & parishes
Freeholders vote, decision-making & variables
Burgesses v Council & govs

Middle Plantation Treaty: natives now selling land to colonists (overall pop decline, no longer major players)
Culpeper new gov, put burgesses down
Planters rebelled bc low tobacco prices (cut plants) Beverly gained money from this
Effingham in, legal changes
Glorious Revolution, changes again (Board of Trade)
Religious war in France (Huguenots settle)
Planters in power, fraud, no reform
Compare/contrast w/ England