It was the state of "Virginia" in which <span>the first successful colony, Jamestown, was settled. It was successful largely to its ability to plant and harvest tobacco, which was in high demand in Europe. </span>
<span>"Institution of the draft" & "</span><span>Increasing body count"</span>
On July 4, 1826, less than two years before "King Andrew" ascended to the "throne," the Yankee John Adams and the aristocratic Virginian Thomas Jefferson both passed away. America's Revolutionary generation was gone. With them went the last vestiges of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican <span>parties.</span>
