The Southern Colonies
Jamestown was the first European (English) settlement in this colony.
Where is Virginia?
This man led a rebellion of indentured servants and enslaved African and mixed race people against the colonial government of Jamestown. They actually burned down Jamestown.
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
European claims to this colony were first made by Swedes in the south and the Dutch further north, there was also a large Quaker presence. It was also split into East and West, and forced to unite in 1702. Where we live was on the east side, but very close to the border.
What is New Jersey?
A person bound by a signed contract (an indenture) to work for another person for a specific period without regular salary, typically in exchange for travel expenses, food, shelter, and clothing
Who were indentured servants?
Two of the first English settlements here were Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth - led by separatists and Puritans.
Where is Massachusetts?
To take away a person's or group's human qualities, dignity, individuality, or basic rights.
What is to dehumanize?
This colony bordered Spanish controlled Florida to its south, and settlers were not welcomed (generally) by native communities already there. It was a dangerous place to go, this is why debtors in prison were recruited out of England to live there to work of their prison time. They could gain land, if they survived.
Where is Georgia?
Timucuan society (the Native people of St. Augustine) had these people frequently as chiefs and was a matrilineal society and they were frequently their chiefs.
Who were women?
This colony was initially part of the land grant given to William Penn and lies just south of Pennsylvania. Also, the Swedes claimed it before the English took it over.
Where is Delaware?
Mostly in the American south (although some could be found in middle colonies/states - large properties that produced goods like cotton and tobacco through the exploitation and forced labor of enslaved people.
What was a plantation?
Roger Williams was kicked out of Massachusetts for what he preached, so he started a colony south of there where people could be religiously free and the Natives were treated somewhat better.
Where is Rhode Island?
Form of slavery where enslavers have total, absolute power over the life, labor, and liberty of enslaved people. Enslaved individuals can be bought, sold, traded, gifted, or inherited just like livestock or furniture. The status of a slave is permanent and legally inherited, meaning children born to enslaved mothers are automatically enslaved for life. Enslaved people possess no personal freedom, civil rights, or legal standing
What is chattel slavery?
To the North of Virginia, surrounded by the Chesapeake bay, this Southern colony was a safe haven for English Catholics to come and settle. The harbor city of Baltimore was extremely important to colonial trade.
Where is Maryland?
These types of artifacts have been found throughout much of Florida and help archaeologists understand the transportation and fishing methods used by the original Native people of Florida.
What are canoes?
King Charles II owed this man's father a debt which was repaid by a land grant in the American colonies. This man was a Quaker and therefore created a colony that welcomed people of all religions.
Where is Pennsylvania?
Legal statutes that ban marriage and intimate sexual relationships between people of different racial groups.
What were anti- miscegenation laws?
This colony that is north of New York was founded by Thomas Hooker, who was a Puritan kicked out Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hartford was one of its early settlements and later became its capital.
Where is Connecticut?
Sets of laws passed by colonial and state governments in the Americas that defined the status of enslaved people and gave owners absolute power over them.
What were slave codes?
Just to the south of Virginia, its coastline was the setting for the failed Roanoke colony, inland tobacco production would make this colony very profitable for planters through enslaved labor of Africans. There were also lots of forests for shipbuilding there too.
Where is North Carolina?
The people who participated in Bacon's Rebellion were angry that the government leaders of Jamestown would not allow them to settle in this direction to gain better farmland (since the elite planters had claimed the best land for themselves).
What is west?
This colony, like New Jersey, was first claimed by the Dutch who named in New Netherland, with its important port city called, New Amsterdam. When the British recognized the tremendous wealth in trade that control over the harbors of New Amsterdam and Hudson River, they took it away from the Dutch and renamed it to reflect their English dominance.
Where is New York?
The owner or manager of a large farm or plantation, particularly in a historical context.
Who was a planter?
This colony to the north of Massachusetts (with a short coastline to the Atlantic) was known for its lumber, boatbuilding and fishing industries.
Where is New Hampshire?
This was one of the unintended consequences of Bacon's Rebellion on labor practices in Virginia.
What was the growth of using African born enslaved people, who would inherit that status from their parents for their entire lives, and therefore the growth of the African-American enslaved population?
This southern colony's economic importance had the south's largest harbor/trade hub in Charleston, as well as the main location for the further importation of enslaved people of African descent, many of whom were brought and bought from plantations in the Caribbean. This colony also had large plantations that produced rice, indigo and further inland, tobacco.
Where is South Carolina?
Nathaniel Bacon and his followers did this to Indian groups that were actually peaceful allies of the Jamestown settlers, not part of the Native groups that they had had disputes with.
What was to kill innocent men, women and children in their rebellion?
Although initially many members of this religious group were slaveholders, eventually they largely took an anti-slavery stance and would disown members who kept their enslaved people. They were especially present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Who were the Quakers aka the Society of Friends?
Agricultural products grown specifically to sell for a profit on local or global markets, rather than for the farmer's personal consumption.
What is a cash crop? For example tobacco was an important cash crop that made Virginia colony profitable.
7These were (and still are) an important part of the colonial economy in New England, due to their abundant forests and rivers to power them.
What were saw mills and lumber mills?
If a child was born to an enslaved woman, and the father was free, this would be the status of that child.
What is enslaved, because the child inherited the status of their mother legally?