Languages and Customs
Languages and Customs
Languages and Customs
Languages and Customs
Languages and Customs
The language that the English Gentry spoke.
What is English?
This cash crop was used to dye clothes purple.
What is indigo?
This crop was used in the Virginia Colony to keep Jamestown from failing.
What is tobacco?
A material used in European weapons that most Natives didn’t have.
What is steel?
The Southern colonies’ climate made it extremely easy to farm these.
What are cash crops?
This type of inheritance meant only the first son inherited his father’s land.
What is primogeniture?
The crop that replaced tobacco, after prices fell.
What is rice?
Jamestown was named after this person.
Who is King James I?
A type of weapon that Natives didn’t acquire before Europeans.
What is a gun?
The religion of the original settlers at Jamestown.
What is Protestantism
The name of the type of colony that mirrored life in Europe.
What is neo-European?
The settlers of Jamestown often did this to get food during “The Starving Times.”
What is dig up graves and eat human remains?
The type of slavery where one human is the property of another human.
What is chattel slavery?
Plantation owners often hired tutors to teach their boys this.
What are math and sciences?
The religious category that most Native Americans had variations of.
What is Animism?
A method by which African slaves kept their culture alive.
What are music, hairstyles, or folklore?
The types of clothes women wore.
What are petticoats and cotton dresses?
The person who founded Georgia.
Who is James Edward Oglethorpe?
Every slaveholder was said to be educated in this.
What is tyranny?
This was the typical climate of the Southern Colonies.
What is warm and damp?
This system was used to grant land to anyone who paid the immigration fee.
What is the headright system?
Typical food eaten amongst slaves and servants.
What is Ash Cake?
Another phrase for “Southern Colonies”, ruled directly by the Monarchs of England
What are “The Royal Colonies”?
The tools did African women used to remove husks from rice.
What are mortars and pestles?
This proprietor established the colony of Maryland for the Catholics.
Who is Lord Baltimore?