Motivation for Settlement
The Southern Colonies' main reason for settlement in the New World
What are economic opportunities?
True or false: The area that the Southern Colonies were located in was the first place settlers from England explored in 1607.
True
The Southern Colonies used this type of agriculture which is described as growing a large amount of one crop for the purpose of selling and making a profit
What is plantation agriculture?
The name the English settlers called the Native Americans that lived in Jamestown when it was first settled
What are the Indians?
Most Native American groups died out when English settlers first came to Jamestown because the settlers brought these:
What are new diseases?
The name of the company responsible for Jamestown, the first colony in the New World
What is the VA Company of London?
What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown?
A singular crop that is planted and grown in large amounts for the purpose of selling and making money
What are CASH crops?
True or false: The settlers burned the villages of the Native Americans as well as their corn crops
True. Despite being starving for some time, they still burned their crops.
This term is used to refer to the first 20 slaves brought to Jamestown who were told they could "work for their freedom"?
What are indentured servants?
True or false: The VA Company of London was a joint stock, so if the colony were to fail, no one would go bankrupt or take full liability.
True
The reason crops were easiest to grow in the Southern Colonies compared to the rest was due to these climate and weather factors
What is Hot/Humid Climate and rainfall?
2 Major economic beliefs each 3 of the groups had, including the Southern Colonies
What is Private ownership & free enterprise?
True or False: The Southern Colonies were the most friendly with Native Americans, both seeing that they could benefit from each other through trade.
False. The Middle colonies were the friendliest for this reason.
This is the year that Virginia established permanent slavery of hereditary servitude for Africans
What is the year 1640?
This is the country Christopher Columbus thought he was headed to in 1607 when he accidentally instead found North America
India
Crops were also easiest to grow and export in the Southern Colonies because of these 2 geographic features
What are Lowlands and Coastal Plains?
3 large CASH crops from the Southern Colonies that changed the New World and England
What is Tobacco, Corn, and Indigo?
The ma of the Powhatan Chief's daughter who married John Rolfe, generating a somewhat-peaceful time between English settlers and the Powhatan tribe before her later death
Who is Pochahontas?
These are the 2 reasons that Native American groups were not enslaved by English settlers who needed workers for agriculture.
1. They knew the lands well enough to run away
2. Some worried enslaving Native American groups may negatively affect trading
Who is the King of England?
The 5 states that made up the Southern Colonies
What are the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland?
The year that Africans were first brought to Jamestown to work in plantations for no wages or credit in order for work to be easier and more profitable
The primary reason that the English settlers stole the land of Native Americans
What is to grow CASH crops like tobacco?
This is the year that slavery was deemed legal in all the colonies
What is the year 1750?