Although women played a vital role in providing for their families, economic opportunities remained limited. During the early 1800s, an additional job opportunity arose for women -- factory work. ... Employers commonly paid women one-half to two-thirds of what a man doing the same job received. The wages were pitiful.
Well the first English settlement was really Roanoke, however it was not successful. The first successful one would be the new Virginia colony, later known as Jamestown;)
