Pocahontas & Early Connections
This person was not only Pocahontas' relative but also the name of the Indigenous tribe that lived near Jamestown, VA,
Who was Pocahontas' father Chief Powhatan?
This a person who buys and sells goods, often on a large scale.
What is a merchant?
Sugar affected what people drank in Europe and the colonies. Name one such drink that became popular.
What is sugar made sweet drinks like tea, coffee, and hot chocolate incredibly popular?
This person is someone who wanted to end slavery and help enslaved people gain freedom by any means necessary.
What is an abolitionist?
Converting to Christianity and acting as a diplomatic figure were just a few examples that changed some Europeans’ views of Indigenous peoples.
What are a few ways Pocahontas helped improve relationships between early British settlers and Indigenous peoples?
This person is a skilled craftsperson who makes things with their hands; example: blacksmith or cobbler.
What is an artisan?
This process lead to the high demand of sugar that grew and required large amounts of labor and Europeans sought cheaper labor sources to maximize profits
What is harvesting, breaking down sugar to molasses and sending it to Europe?
One way abolitionists spread their message in the 1700s-1800s were utilizing the printing press to spread anti-slavery ideas throughout their town or village, these documents were called...
What are pamphlets?
This person wrote much of what we know about Pocahontas and was described as being “adopted” by the Powhatan people?
Who was the leader of the Virginia Bay Colony, John Smith?
This person is bound to work without pay for a set time, usually in exchange for passage, room, and board. They might become one to pay for travel to the colonies.
What is an indentured servant?
Besides sugar these other crops and materials were demanded by the Europeans that the Americans had an abundance of.
What is tobacco and cotton?
This resistance was the largest slave uprising in the American colonies at the time in 1739.
What was the Stono Uprising and in what year did it take place?
It was this religion that Pocahontas converted to and then married this Englishman
What is Christianity and who was John Rolfe?
This type of person was forced into unpaid labor and treated as property. One Difference: indentured servants worked for a set term and could gain freedom; enslaved people were forced to work for life and were considered owned.
What is an enslaved person and one difference b/w an indentured servant and an enslaved person?
This specific region in this continent had a large amount of enslaved persons coming to the Caribbean and the 13 Colonies.
What is West Africa (Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria) in Africa?
The Stono Uprising was led by this leader; who wanted the rebels to aim & to fight enslavers and reach Spanish Florida where slavery was not enforced, seeking freedom.
Who is Commander Cato and what was the main goal of the rebels?
She served as a cultural bridge by adopting some English customs that included religion, married John Rolfe; outcomes include improved relationships between some English settlers and Powhatan people and changed European perceptions that Indigenous peoples were not “savages.”
What is to explain how Pocahontas acted like a diplomat? What are two outcomes of her interactions with the English?
Types of work that were expected of enslaved people were the following...
What is back-breaking plantation labor & field work, work on ships and docks, & skilled and unskilled labor in cities?
This large‑scale forced migration of African people to the Americas to be enslaved; lasted roughly from the 1500s through the 1800s.
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This African queen was just one example on resistance of ensuring her people not being captured and enslaved, she resisted European encroachment, led military and diplomatic efforts to protect her kingdom and neighboring areas, and refused to accept European domination.
Who was Queen Njinga Mbande (Njinga)?