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→Colonial: The first Virginia Charter
[[File:Col-va.jpg|thumb|300px|The colony had only a few small towns; the first permanent settlement and original capital was Jamestown.]]
[[File:Col-va.jpg|thumb|300px|The colony had only a few small towns; the first permanent settlement and original capital was Jamestown.]]
Permanent European settlement began with English settlers at Jamestown in 1607. Tobacco emerged as a profitable export crop, and the Virginia Colony became the richest and largest British colonies in North America. The year 2007 marked the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown.
Permanent European settlement began with English settlers at Jamestown in 1607. Tobacco emerged as a profitable export crop, and the Virginia Colony became the richest and largest British colonies in North America. The year 2007 marked the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown.
The first Virginia Charter declared in 1606:
"We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God <ref>[https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va01.asp The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606]</ref>"
==Revolution==
==Revolution==