Chapter 3 Flashcards
Virginia company were granted a charter by king james
royal license to poach on Spanish claims and Indian lands
they also had major problems with
diease and starvation
traditional notions of class and labor
most were gentlemen and their servants
helped turn the Virginia colony into a profitable venture
tabacco
biggest obstacle facing farmers
lack of workers
head right policy
settlers who paid their own transportation would receive 50 acres
once service is complete servant received
freedom dues
reasons for indentured servitude
solve labor shortage in America, economic circumstances in England, high costs of travel, head rights incentive
planters will devise laws to extend periods of servitude and keep servants in their place
committed a crime
17th century chesapeake society essentially
servants and free labor
servants saw themselves as free people
who were only temporally servants
most indentured servants came from the lower class
poor young men from england
unlike servants in England, chesapeake servants
had no control over who purchased their labor
Baltimore’s planned refuge for catholics
sees the catholics feeding with the protestant majority
yeoman farmers (Planters)
small plot of land worked primarily by himself and his family
the easy availability of and will also
contribute to this degree of frontier equality
the decline in the price of tobacco changed the chesapeake, in that it saw the
emergence of social divisons
social structure was polarized based on
land ownership
political equality decreased during the 1660s and 1670s
only land owners can vote
Bacon’s laws … at the expense of planter elites
transferred power to newcomers and small farmers
the conflict ends up being between
planter elites vs small farmers
most profitable colony of the British new world empire in the 17th century lay in the caribbean
barbados
settlers in ________ are from immigrants from barados
carolinas
______ is the main source of black slavery to the cheseapeake
barbados
enormously profitable
rice
-Bacons rebellion begain over…
-bacon and the colonists prinicple demand…
-governor Berkeley response….
-bacons response(the result of berkleys response)
-results of bacons rebellion
-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
Bacons laws …. at the expense of planter elites
transferred power to newcomers and small farmers
the conflict ends up being between
planter elites vs small farmers
most profitable colony of the british new world empire in 17th century lay in the caribean
barbados
settlers in ________ are from immigrants from barabados
carolinas
________ is the main source of black slavery to the cheseapeake
barabados
______ enormously profitable
rice
tobacco planters converting their plantations from indentured to slaves for 3 reasons
-they never became freed
-childrens of slaves mothers inherited the status of slavery thus providing a perpetuating labor force
-slaves could be controlled legally
