Vocab
A company whose shareholders own stock in the company.
joint-stock company
This English monarch was the first to be interested in building American colonies.
Queen Elizabeth I
This was the way that Jamestown became successful.
Began production of tobacco
A person who strongly disagrees with official policy.
Dissenter
Main way people were enslaved pre 1500:
Captured in warfare
the removal of Africans from their homelands to the Americas
African Diaspora
He was given the queen's permission to set up a North American colony -- but he didn't actually go there.
Sir Walter Raleigh
The purpose of the Jamestown colony:
Make money for the Virginia Company
The Pilgrims and Puritans both settled in New England to build a society away from this institution:
The Church of England
This nation's contact with Africa opened African slavery to new markets across the ocean.
Portugal
a person under contract to work, usually without pay, in exchange for free passage to the colonies.
Indentured servant
What John White discovered upon returning to Roanoke in 1590:
The colony was deserted.
Reason the Powhatan kept on attacking English Virginia:
Loss of land, loss of culture, to teach the English a lesson (didn't work)
The Pilgrims were only able to survive for this reason:
Sources of labor the Spanish and English used before the growth of the Atlantic slave trade.
Enslaved Native Americans, indentured servants (English)
a written grant establishing an institution (in this case a colony) and detailing members’ rights and privileges.
Evidence that Roanoke experienced drought:
Tree rings nearby
This governing body of Virginia represented landowners, not indentured servants or others without land.
House of Burgesses
The Puritans founded this colony, which soon split off into several others.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
This resulted from the increased demand for labor from the Spanish colonies.
African nations captured and enslaved more people.
Chattel slavery
people (and their children) classified as goods with no human rights
John White was unable to return to Roanoke for 3 years due to this:
The Spanish Armada
The main reason for landless colonists to join Bacon's Rebellion:
Not enough land due to the treaty with the Powhatan; attack the Native Americans around the colony; overthrow Berkeley so the colony could expand
Reason that New England was fairly easy for the English to build colonies in:
Recently depopulated from smallpox epidemics
Types of slavery in Africa pre 1500:
Chattel slavery (sporadically, not much evidence), domestic service, pawnship, military slavery, and human sacrifice.