How did national rivalries and the search for wealth shape the founding of jamestown and the growth of virginia? write your response in a paragraph.

Jamestown was the first American Colony, the British settled there 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth - Massachusetts. Jamestown colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, because of that a group of investors wanted to profit - search for wealth - then when they settled in the Colony, they started to plant tobacco around 1613.

The tobacco industry pushed the growth of the Virginia colony because it’s growth demanded a lot of hand-workers.

For the religion, the investors of the Virginia Company were members of the Church of England - Protestantism - Therefore, Protestantism was the religion in Jamestown and became the prominent religion in Virginia.

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