Jamestown
The name of the first British settlement in the Americas
What is Jamestown?
The leader of this rebellion (First and Last name required)
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
a period of time when people developed new ideas about human existence, including peoples’ basic rights and the level of control they should have over their government and their futures.
What is the Enlightenment?
from 1692-1693, the event where people were accusing others of being witches was called this.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
the Southern most colony on the map
What is Georgia?
A crop that is grown strictly for profit and not for use
What is a cash crop?
High taxes, control of the beaver fur monopoly, and lack of protection from Natives was this.
Enlightenment thinkers believed that human beings are born with fundamental, basic rights.
What are Natural Rights?
The fact that it had more fertile soil and more navigable rivers than Roanoke made this place a better place to settle.
What is Chesapeake Bay?
the smallest colony
What is Rhode Island?
The cash crop that ultimately saved Jamestown was this.
What is tobacco?
the action or process of resisting authority or control
What is to rebel?
no rules and complete freedom
What is the state of nature?
The idea that even the king was not above the law was established in this.
What is the Magna Carta?
The colony that was located in two different places. (Points to 2 separate "states" on the map"
What is Massachusetts?
The rise of tobacco in Jamestown also led to the rise of this.
What is slavery?
Harsh laws between black slaves and white servants had this importance for Bacon's Rebellion.
What is a major impact of Bacon's Rebellion?
citizens give up some freedom they would have in a state of nature (like the freedom to rob and kill people), and in exchange the government protects citizens’ right to life, liberty, and property.
What is the social contract?
The very first self government that was set up by the colonists was called this.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The colony that is North of South Carolina.
Horses, rats, dogs, cats, fish, shoes, boots, and leather were all used as this by the people of Jamestown.
What is food?
Bacon died of lice and dysentery, leading to this.
What is an end to Bacon's Rebellion?
If a government failed, then citizens would no longer agree to be governed and they would have the right to revolt.
What is the consent of the governed?
To avoid paying taxes to the people of Salem town, the people of Salem Village did this.
What is accused them of being witches?
The current US State that is on the Atlantic Coast, but was not a US colony.
What is Florida? (Also would accept Maine)