Chapter 3

Question 1

A servant labor system in the British colonies was made possible by the New World’s labor shortage and

Answer 1

the decrease in job opportunities in England

Question 2

How had political equality in Virginia actually decreased by 1670?

Answer 2

Only male landowners and heads of households could vote

Question 3

What was an employer required to give a servant after she or he completed an indenture?

Answer 3

Freedom dues

Question 4

Bacon’s Rebellion erupted in 1676 as a dispute over Indian policy and ended as a conflict between

Answer 4

the planter elite and small farmers

Question 5

What happened in Virginia after Nathaniel Bacon’s death?

Answer 5

Royal officials nullified Bacon’s Laws

Question 6

Virginia tobacco farmers confronted what major obstacle in the 1600s?

Answer 6

Too few workers

Question 7

Which factor led King James to revoke the Virginia Company charter and make Virginia a royal colony in 1624?

Answer 7

A report highlighting the mismanagement of the Virginia Company

Question 8

Indentured servants in the Chesapeake could have their servitude extended by years if they

Answer 8

committed a crime

Question 9

The slave population grew in Barbados because

Answer 9

planters imported more slaves from Africa

Question 10

How did Powhatan help the English stave off starvation?

Answer 10

He brought corn to the colony for barter

Question 11

Most indentured servants in the Chesapeake came from which class?

Answer 11

Poor men from England

Question 12

Which statement describes the sugar economy of Barbados in 1680?

Answer 12

The wealthiest Barbadians were four times richer than Chesapeake tobacco farmers

Question 13

By 1700, the British Caribbean annually exported nearly 50 million pounds of

Answer 13

sugar

Question 14

What happened in Maryland, Lord Baltimore’s planned refuge for Catholics?

Answer 14

Catholics feuded with the Protestant majority

Question 15

By the 1670s, the Chesapeake social structure was polarized along what lines?

Answer 15

Land Ownership

Question 16

Which statement characterizes most hired workers in the Chesapeake?

Answer 16

Workers earned two to three times more in the Chesapeake than in England

Question 17

Why did planters maintain the servant system through the 1680s?

Answer 17

Free people preferred to work for themselves

Question 18

How did indentured servitude differ between women and men in the Chesapeake?

Answer 18

Women servants could not marry

Question 19

Unlike servants in England, Chesapeake servants

Answer 19

had no control over who purchased their labor

Question 20

How did the English of the Virginia Company differ from the Spanish colonists in the New World?

Answer 20

The English cared less about converting Indians to Christianity

Question 21

Which profitable export crop depended on the expertise of slaves brought from West Africa to Carolina?

Answer 21

Rice

Question 22

The slave labor system that was introduced to the Chesapeake was “exported” from

Answer 22

Barbados

Question 23

How did the decline in the price of tobacco in the third quarter of the seventeenth century change the Chesapeake?

Answer 23

Social divisions emerged

Question 24

Why did the colonies shift from an indentured servant labor force to a slave labor force?

Answer 24

Slavery provided a perpetual labor force

Question 25

Why did Powhatan behave as he did toward the English colonists?

Answer 25

Impressed by their God, saw them better as allies than enemies, benefited from trade

Question 26

Why did the vast majority of European immigrants to the Chesapeake come as indentured servants?

Answer 26

Gave them hope, a chance to start over, escape suppression, get money

Question 27

Why did the Chesapeake colonial society become increasingly polarized between 1650 and 1670?

Answer 27

oversupply of tobacco lowered prices in Europe; more servants survived their indentures, leading to a larger and more discontented group of landless freemen; and a declining mortality rate allowed long-time farmers to compound their successes and encouraged the formation of a planter elite

Question 28

Why had slave labor largely displaced indentured servant by 1700 in Chesapeake tobacco production?

Answer 28

Slaves were for life, descendants of slaves were also slaves, no freedom dues

Question 29

Reasons for Europeans to Migrate to the Americas (3)

Answer 29

Political, Social, and Economic Issues

Question 30

Joint Stock Colony

Answer 30

Colonies given to private companies to make money, company owns town and makes decisions

Question 31

Proprietary Colonies

Answer 31

Land given to individuals to create colonies, they can run it how ever they want

Question 32

Royal Colonies

Answer 32

Governed by the crown itself

Question 33

What was Bacon’s Rebellion?

Answer 33

Started with attacks on Native Tribes, then attacks on the governor, then tried to take over Jamestown, eventually rules were put in place to ensure this wouldn’t happen again, people started using slaves because of the rebellion

Question 34

Headright Systems

Answer 34

When a Virginian payed for someones boat ride to the New World they got 50 acres of land