Geography/Government
What is the climate of the South like?
Warm, humid, long growing season makes it a good place to farm
What is Virginia?
Southerners mostly belonged to this religion
What is Christianity? (Mostly Protestant, some Anglican, Baptist, etc.)
A crop grown for the sole purpose of making money
What is a cash crop?
Daughter of the Powhatan chief
Who was Pocahontas?
Name 2 cash crops that were grown in the Southern colonies
Rice, Indigo, Tobacco, Cotton
For economic purposes. Investors wanted to find gold and make money from the colony's success
Who was able to receive an education in the South? Who could NOT receive an education?
Could: Wealthy white men
Could not: women, slaves, children, poor whites
A worker who signs a contract to work for a set time before becoming free
What is an indentured servant?
This man took command of Jamestown after the winter and famously said "Those who will not work, will not eat"
Who was John Smith?
England
What is tobacco?
Describe the social structure of the South.
Wealthy white landowners, poor white indentured servants, African slaves
A large farm designed to grow as many crops as possible for maximum profit
What is a plantation?
This man is credited with creating the blend of tobacco that would become very popular in England.
He also married Pocahontas
Who was John Rolfe?
This was the first English representative government in North America, set up following the establishment of Jamestown
What is the House of Burgesses?
What was the name given to the brutal winter that caused the majority of the colonists to die due to lack of food?
What was The Starving Time?
What was the role of women in the Southern colonies?
Women were expected to stay at home, care for children etc.
Women could not vote or receive an education
Women could inherit land from their deceased husband
A disease that killed many of the Jamestown settlers due to being exposed to the many mosquitoes in the swamp
Malaria
This man led the first major armed rebellion in the colonies
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
How did Bacon's Rebellion affect the relationship between the wealthy landowners, indentured servants, and slaves?
Landowners would make an effort to divide the two groups along racial lines
This Native American tribe would aid the Jamestown colonists following the winter and also fight them on several occasions
Who were the Powhatan?
Describe the life of an indentured servant and compare it to the life of an enslaved person
Indentured servant: European, signs a contract to work for a landowner for a set amount of time in exchange for free passage to the New World, is freed after the contract is up and is sometimes given supplies and equipment. Conditions were brutal and many died from overworking.
Slaves: From Africa, serve for life without pay and are likely never freed. Brutally treated by their masters.
A type of company in which stock is owned collectively by the shareholders
What is a joint-stock company?
Jamestown was named after this King
Who was King James I?