A Deadly Sweetener
The history of human enslavement
Push and Pull Factors
Jamestown Colony
European enslavement of Africans
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A plant that grows in stalks containing a syrupy sweetener.
What is sugar cane?
100
An ancient culture which enslaved human beings defeated in wars.
What are the Ancient Greeks/Romans?
100
This is a conflict when two groups of people in the same country are at war with each other.
What is a civil war?
100
Jamestown colony was named after this person.
Who was King James of England?
100
This is the continent depicted here in this 1500s map.
What is Africa?
200
This explorer brought the first sugar cane stalks with him on his first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
Another word for "work".
What is labor?
200
Many people who lived in London were displaced from their homes when this event occurred in 1666.
What is the Great Fire of 1666?
200
James Fort was built in this shape.
What is a triangle?
200
The first Africans were brought to Jamestown in this year, as described in the diary of John Rolfe.
What is 1619?
300
This alcoholic product was made from fermenting sugar.
What is rum?
300
The fact that Muslims in Spain enslaved Christians shows that enslavement was sometimes based on this.
What is religion?
300
This was the King of England who split from the Roman Catholic Church so he could marry a new wife.
Who was Henry the VIII?
300
This was the native leader of the local native inhabitants of the Virginia in the 1500s.
Who was Powhatan?
300
One of the social restrictions that was written in the law in the British colonies prohibited this between the races.
What is interracial marriage?
400
Europeans hoped to use native people to work in the sugar cane fields, but this destroyed the native population.
What are diseases (smallpox, measles, influenza)?
400
A social structure which shows more power held by a few at the top, and less power held by those at the bottom.
What is a hierarchy?
400
This encouraged English males to come to the new colonies and receive 50 acres of free land, for him and any other family members and servants.
What is the Headright System?
400
Scientists who examined tree rings at Jamestown discovered that this climate event occurred just before the English settlers arrived in the 1600s.
What is a drought?
400
This African male in 1640 was sentenced to a lifetime of enslavement based on his "race" alone.
Who was John Punch?
500
This is a brown syrup that is created when the sugar cane stalks are boiled.
What is molasses?
500
Here it was common for local kings to capture and enslave their rivals to sell to Europeans in the 1500s.
What is West Africa?
500
The offer of freedom from jail to go to South Carolina and work in a colony would be this kind of "factor"
What is a pull factor?
500
This woman's skeleton was found by archaeologists who determined that survival cannibalism was practiced during the Starving Time in Jamestown.
Who is Jane?
500
This is a practice of mapping out neighborhoods according to the race of the residents, and not offering loans or assistance to the people who lived there.
What is "redlining"?