In the 17th century, Englishmen in North America were largely farmers. Many like the Virginia Company had acted like modern day venture capitalists. They traversed the Atlantic with hope that the New World would yield more fertile soil than the overpopulated England, which was also feeling the pinch of dwindling natural resources. Some had hoped to find a new crop altogether that might turn into a lucrative venture. When the Virginia Company founded Jamestown in the Chesapeake Bay, they not only found the ideal climate and fertile soil they were looking for but they also found a land overgrown with forests and drowned by marshy swamps. In order to plant crops, manpower was needed to clear the land. Thus creating an enormous need for
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