Justine’s Reviews > Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607–2007 > Status Update

Conflict over trad rights (H of Commons v H of B)
Nav Acts enforced (pay war debt)
Blows bc 1) H of B changes denied (R Bland = Antiquary) & 2) Pistole Fee (Privy Council)
2-Penny Acts (Parson’s Cause & P Henry)
More Acts; Stamp postponed by Grenville, colonial resist, denied
VA Resolves @ H of B; inspiring; boycotts; Declaratory Act
Robinson
Townshend Acts; outcry
Raleigh Tavern; boycott
Debt cast Eng in neg light

Ohio Co
Gov Dinwiddie: 1st diplomacy, then attack
Washington & Ft Necessity
Braddock’s defeat; war now worldwide
Native raids, local enlistments (“not my yard” attitudes); new rules 4 discipline
Mass fort building (frontier & native relations)
W Pitt now in charge w/ new vigor
Continued hostility w/ natives til ‘61
Treaty of Paris
American v British views (contributions, native treatment & Proclamation Line)

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

Royal Adventurers/African Co: monopoly on slave trade
Most went to W Indies; then shift to VA
Perpetual “stock”
Pop #’s
Cultural blend, fear of assembly
Plots & rebels; harsher laws
Bacon’s Rebellion:
-More native attacks, no act from Berkeley
-Ppl sought land, Bacon asked commission; Ber said no
-Bacon Laws
-Ba fired, got wish; ousted Be & ruled; burned Jamestown; died
-Be hung many, replaced
Struggle 4 land

Large planters w/ power (Byrd, Carter), middle used credit, small sold up or on river
Tobacco in mil
Indentured servitude:
-Tidewater area
-1/2 midcentury workforce
-Semiproperty (contract)
-Controlled marriage
-Fines for bastards, lack of parental rights
-Gained lands under VA Co era, not so under crown (poverty, bitter)
Less Eng emigrants
Slavery increase, racism, sue for freedom by religion/parent
Interracial law

Cromwell in, restricted trade & Treaty of Jamestown (commonwealth)
Cavalier State, most pop servants or middle
Period of few changes
Quakers in, then out
Navigation Act took Dutch trade out, 1st Anglo-Dutch War
Gov changes, Berkeley back
Old Dominion
B wants to diversify, Eng monopolizes, VA in Econ depression
2 more wars
Planter elite, intercolonial trade, plantations; wealth; power
Northern Neck land, Baron Fairfax