American history help?

Question

I was wondering how economics affected the early political development of the U.S. colonies.

I was thinking about how economic prosperity led to British control over Virginia in the 1600s, and the effects of economics on Puritan orthodoxy in Massachusetts.

Answer 1

Virginia as were the puritan settlements crown possessions. The crown allowed the settlers to colonise these lands. Economics did not give give control over the colonies and lands.
Virginia was founded as a money making venture, later it obviously became Britains penal colony. Indentured labourers and convicts having 4 times the numbers of immigrants as the Puritans did was far more influential than the Puritans ever where. How ever as myths go being founded by convicts doesn't play as nearly as well as religious refugees

Answer 2

From the begining the southern colonies had all the economic power through the agricultural centers that the economy revolved around. This in turn made slavery a neccesity in the eyes of the founding fathers setting the nation on a collision course with the civil war made inevitable by slavery's very existence. It is another reason Virginia dominated the head of government for so many of the early years.