Ch2 Quiz

Question 1

What are the Chesapeake colonies?

Answer 1

the southern part of English North America consisting of the “tidewater”, “low country”, and “back country”

Question 2

“Tidewater”

Answer 2

Virginia and Maryland

Question 3

“Low country”

Answer 3

the Carolinas and eventually Georgia

Question 4

“Back country”

Answer 4

a vast territory extending from the “fall line” of the foothills of the appalachians to the farthest point of western human settlement

Question 5

“Fall line”

Answer 5

place in the foothills of the appalachians where waterfalls/rapids end upwater travel

Question 6

Late 18th century emergence of 3 common features…

Answer 6

slavery, export agricultural oriented economy, absence of towns

Question 7

High death rate in the south due to…

Answer 7

hot and moist climates

Question 8

Result of the high death rate in the South

Answer 8

frequent remarriage, families with kids from several different marriages, women easily find husbands (3 men to 2 women), many men have to marry NA women or live alone

Question 9

Life centered on…

Answer 9

agriculture, grants of land were given to attract settlers, labor was vital to work the land

Question 10

Headright System

Answer 10

each “head” entering the colony had the right to 50 acres of land as long as you paid for the crossing

Question 11

How was land claimed via the headright system

Answer 11

Marking boundaries, planting a crop, and building a house

Question 12

Quitrent

Answer 12

a fee paid annually to the granter of the land you lived on (# acres)

Question 13

Indentured servant voyage

Answer 13

if you could not pay for the voyage to the New World, you could be an indentured servant and work for a stated period (usually about 5 years)

Question 14

what did indentured servants recieve (in terms of land and pay)

Answer 14

the headright went to the person that paid for your passage and you recieved nothing beyond your keep

Question 15

if you survived, what did you get when your indenture was up

Answer 15

you were usually entitled to an “outfit” (clothes, seeds, tools, maybe a gun) and sometimes land in the Carolinas and Pennsylvania

Question 16

Squatter’s Rights

Answer 16

if you were camping on someone else’s land and the owner showed up, you had a right to buy the land without paying for any improvements made (not actual rights)

Question 17

1670s Virginia society conflict

Answer 17

on the verge of class war due to conflict between squatters (former servants usually) and wealthy landowners

Question 18

what kept most people other than the wealthy landowners in poverty?

Answer 18

low tobacco prices and high local taxes

Question 19

First Africans brought to the New World…

Answer 19

arrive in Jamestown aboard a Dutch ship

Question 20

why enslave Africans

Answer 20

they were seen as heathens, racism (equated with dirt, the Devil, and death), no escaping because the land is unfamiliar, more disease resistant than the NAs

Question 21

Number 1 slave trading port

Answer 21

Newport

Question 22

why were white servants more highly prized

Answer 22

not as alien or expensive

Question 23

1670s indentured servants decrease. why?

Answer 23

improving conditions in Europe, competition from other colonies

Question 24

Royal African Company

Answer 24

joint-stock company created to increase the supply of slaves to the colonies

Question 25

“permanent” solution to the chronic labor shortage

Answer 25

slavery

Question 26

where was tobacco originally brought from

Answer 26

west indes by the spanish

Question 27

tobacco production

Answer 27

supply and demand led to a drastic drop in prices, production went from 2,500 to 30 million pounds by the late 17th century (400 pounds per capita)

Question 28

a single laborer could produce how much tobacco in a year

Answer 28

2/3 acres –> 1,200 pounds of tobacco (200% profit)

Question 29

1676 Bacon’s Rebellion conflict

Answer 29

1. Gov. William Berkeley (green spring faction) vs. western planters led by Nathaniel Bacon
2. planters wanted approval to attack the local NAs (they were attacking the planters apparently)
3. Gov. didn’t agree so Bacon and his 500 followers murdered peaceful NAs, marched on Jamestown, and forced Berkeley to give him permission to kill more, burns Jamestown to the ground, then dies of dysentary

Question 30

result of Bacon’s rebellion

Answer 30

Virginia society became wedded to slavery s an answer to the labor problems and switched class divisions for racial ones

Question 31

NC and SC cash crops?

Answer 31

NC –> tobacco
SC –> rice

Question 32

indigo competition with rice?

Answer 32

no because it was high ground and had the majority of the work done on it in a different time of year

Question 33

southern colonist trade

Answer 33

manufactured goods for tobacco, rice, and indigo

Question 34

what are factors

Answer 34

agents in england managing the sale of crops, extending credit, and buying the required manufactured goods

Question 35

slave regulations increased in severity in proportion to…

Answer 35

the black population

Question 36

1740 SC Negro Act

Answer 36

denied freedom of movement, food growing, income, and learning to read and write english (no civil rights)

Question 37

accultured slaves (speak english, use European tools, practice a trade) were more valuable but also…

Answer 37

more likely to run away/ resist

Question 38

how did farm hands express dissatisfaction

Answer 38

pilferage, petty sabatoge, and laziness or feigning stupidity

Question 39

slave rebellions were rare in the south though…

Answer 39

fear of them was high

Question 40

houses in the south were…

Answer 40

small, dark, and crowded

Question 41

women’s role in the south

Answer 41

tending to farm animals, making butter/ cheese, pickling/ preserving, spinning/ sewing, and raising the children

Question 42

schools frequency in the south

Answer 42

rare, kids learned at home

Question 43

the rich had (houses, schooling, household appliances)

Answer 43

solid two-story houses, 6 or more rooms, furnished with imported goods, were able to send kids abroad for schooling, servants

Question 44

William and Mary college

Answer 44

mission was to train clergy men, initially education was just above grammer school level

Question 45

Georgia founding

Answer 45

founded by a group of philanthropists in 1733 to give a place of settlement for honest people who had been imprisoned for debt in England

Question 46

the last of the 13 colonies

Answer 46

georgia

Question 47

in 1733, James Oglethorpe founded Savannah with the intention of…

Answer 47

creating a colony of sober yeomen farmers

Question 48

yeomen

Answer 48

someone who owns his own farm and works it himself

Question 49

savannah culture

Answer 49

alcohol and slaves banned, NA trade was regulated strictly

Question 50

savannah. success or fail?

Answer 50

fail, economy develops like south carolina, growing rice and importing slaves

Question 51

georgia becomes a what colony in 1752

Answer 51

royal

Question 52

the back country felt underrepresented when 1/4 million settlers moved into it (10% of the population) resulted in…

Answer 52

conflict with the low country

Question 53

puritans lived how long in relation to the southern colonists

Answer 53

longer, more healthful climate and better initial preperation

Question 54

puritan society was ordered by a ___ to ensure everyone’s good behavior

Answer 54

covenant

Question 55

at the center of society was the family which was…

Answer 55

nuclear and patriarchal, father was the head of the household