Early Colonial Period
This year marks the arrival of the first year English colonists in Jamestown, Virginia.
What is 1607?
How did enslaved Africans demonstrate acts of resistance during the middle passage?
What is suicide by drowning?
Poor whites were offered little privileges over enslaved africans to ensure what kind of divide stayed in place
What is a racial divide?
To prevent future alliances between African slaves and white servants, colonial authorities implemented these laws to create racial divisions.
What are Slave Codes?
This study of how people allocate resources for production, distribution and consumption both individually and collectively is also known as...
What is economics?
This crop became the primary export of the Virginia Colony and contributed to its economic success.
What is tobacco?
What was the most common method of resistance?
What is running away?
ALL except who were given the right to bear arms in 1639
who is slaves
This term describes the strategy used to give slight privileges to poor whites, thereby creating a racial wedge.
What is Divide and conquer?
What main cash crop was grown during this period
Corn, tobacco & sugar
This winter marks the period of the "Starving Time"
What is 1609-1610?
In 1687, African slaves conspired to kill the whites in their area and escape during what public event?
What is a mass funeral?
What policies were put into place to create a framework to enforce racial distinctions and legitimize the enslavement of Africans?
What are Slave Codes?
This type of labor system involving both African slaves and white indentured servants, was prevalent in the early Virginia Colony.
What is the Plantation system?
What factors contributed to the need for black laborers in colonial Virginia?
the settlers not knowing how to work the land, them being lazy, killing off the native Americans... etc
This year saw the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia, marking the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade in the English colonies.
What is 1619?
In 1729, the lieutenant governor of Virginia stated 15 slaves conspired to leave their Master, take arms and flee where?
What is neighboring mountains?
The relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea is called...
What is The Color Line?
This Colonial leader played a significant role in the suppression of Bacon's Rebellion and the subsequent changes in labor policy.
Who is Governor William Berkeley?
Which US president told a British visitor that he could make $257 per slave in a year?
Who is James Madison?
This term refers to the brutal journey enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
In 1640, when John Punch attempted to run away with two white servants, he received what harsh sentencing?
What is lifelong enslavement?
This form of labor system was initially used by settlers but shifted to racial slavery as economic and social pressures made it less profitable
What is Indentured servitude
This rebellion in 1676 highlighted the alliance between African slaves and white servants against the colonial elite.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Land, loyalty and serfs are all attributed to which economic system?
feudalism