Chapter 3

Question 1

Virginia company were granted a charter by king james

Answer 1

royal license to poach on Spanish claims and Indian lands

Question 2

they also had major problems with

Answer 2

diease and starvation

Question 3

traditional notions of class and labor

Answer 3

most were gentlemen and their servants

Question 4

helped turn the Virginia colony into a profitable venture

Answer 4

tabacco

Question 5

biggest obstacle facing farmers

Answer 5

lack of workers

Question 6

head right policy

Answer 6

settlers who paid their own transportation would receive 50 acres

Question 7

once service is complete servant received

Answer 7

freedom dues

Question 8

reasons for indentured servitude

Answer 8

solve labor shortage in America, economic circumstances in England, high costs of travel, head rights incentive

Question 9

planters will devise laws to extend periods of servitude and keep servants in their place

Answer 9

committed a crime

Question 10

17th century chesapeake society essentially

Answer 10

servants and free labor

Question 11

servants saw themselves as free people

Answer 11

who were only temporally servants

Question 12

most indentured servants came from the lower class

Answer 12

poor young men from england

Question 13

unlike servants in England, chesapeake servants

Answer 13

had no control over who purchased their labor

Question 14

Baltimore’s planned refuge for catholics

Answer 14

sees the catholics feeding with the protestant majority

Question 15

yeoman farmers (Planters)

Answer 15

small plot of land worked primarily by himself and his family

Question 16

the easy availability of and will also

Answer 16

contribute to this degree of frontier equality

Question 17

the decline in the price of tobacco changed the chesapeake, in that it saw the

Answer 17

emergence of social divisons

Question 18

social structure was polarized based on

Answer 18

land ownership

Question 19

political equality decreased during the 1660s and 1670s

Answer 19

only land owners can vote

Question 20

Bacon’s laws … at the expense of planter elites

Answer 20

transferred power to newcomers and small farmers

Question 21

the conflict ends up being between

Answer 21

planter elites vs small farmers

Question 22

most profitable colony of the British new world empire in the 17th century lay in the caribbean

Answer 22

barbados

Question 23

settlers in ________ are from immigrants from barados

Answer 23

carolinas

Question 24

______ is the main source of black slavery to the cheseapeake

Answer 24

barbados

Question 25

enormously profitable

Answer 25

rice

Question 26

-Bacons rebellion begain over…
-bacon and the colonists prinicple demand…
-governor Berkeley response….
-bacons response(the result of berkleys response)
-results of bacons rebellion

Answer 26

-colonial indian policy
-is that the indians should not be protected
-declares bacon a rebel and calls for new elections in the house of burgesses
-declares war on berkley and the planters elite
-black slavery introduced

Question 27

Bacons laws …. at the expense of planter elites

Answer 27

transferred power to newcomers and small farmers

Question 28

the conflict ends up being between

Answer 28

planter elites vs small farmers

Question 29

most profitable colony of the british new world empire in 17th century lay in the caribean

Answer 29

barbados

Question 30

settlers in ________ are from immigrants from barabados

Answer 30

carolinas

Question 31

________ is the main source of black slavery to the cheseapeake

Answer 31

barabados

Question 32

______ enormously profitable

Answer 32

rice

Question 33

tobacco planters converting their plantations from indentured to slaves for 3 reasons

Answer 33

-they never became freed
-childrens of slaves mothers inherited the status of slavery thus providing a perpetuating labor force
-slaves could be controlled legally