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People in the South
Colonizing the South
Africans in Carolina
The House of Burgesses
Vocabulary
100
He exported tobacco to Europe.
Who was John Rolfe?
100
The colony that James Oglethorpe founded
What is Georgia?
100
This is the musical instrument Africans introduced to the colonies.
What is a banjo?
100
This person was allowed to vote.
Who are free, white men?
100
Something that is grown for profit.
What is a cash crop?
200
King Charles gave the area of the Chesapeake Bay to this man.
Who was George Calvert?
200
This colony originally wanted to raise silkworms for profit.
What is Carolina?
200
This was why Africans did NOT get sick.
What is immunity from malaria and yellow fever?
200
This London Company provided money to start up this colony.
What was Virginia?
200
This is a large farm where one main crop is grown.
What is a plantation?
300
This Native American was chief of the Algonquians.
Who was Powhatan?
300
This colony allowed Native Americans to escape settlers in the 1600's.
What is Georgia?
300
The reason why slaves were shipped to the Americas.
What is not enough indentured servants?
300
This is where the original capital of Virginia was located.
What was Jamestown?
300
To ship a product to another country to sell it there.
What is export?
400
He would NOT have been surprised that smoking tobacco causes lung diseases.
Who was King James I?
400
The Toleration Act of 1649 allowed both Catholics and Protestants to settle and worship as they pleased.
What is Maryland?
400
You would be this if BOTH parents were enslaved in the 1700's.
What is also a slave?
400
The Virginians set up their own ________ to make laws.
What is legislature?
400
The most important crop grown in an area.
What is a staple crop?
500
This person brought the new work ethic and new rule - people who worked got food.
Who was Captain John Smith?
500
Name all FOUR southern colonies.
What is Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, and Georgia?
500
Name three important skills Africans helped Carolina to survive.
What are creating music, making baskets and gourd containers, fishing nets and fishing techniques, dugout canoes, cattle herding, and rice growing.
500
The governor has the power to ______ laws passed by the legislature.
What is veto?
500
An area of safety between people in a conflict.
What is a buffer zone?