Chapter 7: The Southern Colonies

Question 1

What is life expectancy?

Answer 1

The number of years a person could expect to live.

Question 2

What is an indentured servant?

Answer 2

A person who signed an indenture for years of hard work to get a ride to the new world

Question 3

What is a plantation?

Answer 3

A very large farm

Question 4

What was the House of Burgesses?

Answer 4

A governing body who made laws that was elected by free white males

Question 5

What is a representative?

Answer 5

Someone who represents the interests of a group of people

Question 6

What is a council?

Answer 6

people who advise a leader

Question 7

What is a rebel?

Answer 7

Someone who uses violence to fight the government

Question 8

What was slavery?

Answer 8

A system where people are bought and sold and forced to do work without pay and also they had no personal rights

Question 9

What is an export?

Answer 9

Something sent out of the country it exits the country

Question 10

What is a cash crop?

Answer 10

A crop grown for money and profit not for personal use

Question 11

Who was John Smith? What was he known for?

Answer 11

an able soldier who took charge of Jamestown and enforced strict rules, such as anyone who didn’t work didn’t eat, to save the people of Jamestown

Question 12

Who was Chief Pohatton and what was he known for?

Answer 12

He was the chief of the Powhatan Indians and he traded with Jamestown and also nearly killed John Smith

Question 13

Who was John Rolfe and what was he known for?

Answer 13

John Rolfe married Pocahontas and he discovered tobacco and that it grew well in Virginia

Question 14

Who was Pocahontas, and what was she known for?

Answer 14

She was Chief Powhatan’s daughter and she saved John Smith’s life and later married John Rolfe

Question 15

Who is William Barkley and what was he known for?

Answer 15

the governor of Jamestown. he enforced laws such as people needed land to vote and he raised taxes along with no one could elect the House of Burgesses for 14 years

Question 16

Who was Nathaniel Bacon and what was he known for?

Answer 16

Who is on the Governor’s Council and owned a large plantation and he rebelled against Berkeley for not giving jamestown enough protection from Indians

Question 17

What were the advantages of Jamestown’s location?

Answer 17

being far upriver provided protection from ocean attack;
The river was a good escape route from Indians;
And the river was good for trade with goods

Question 18

What were the disadvantages of Jamestown’s location?

Answer 18

1 During high tide the river would get salty from the ocean and sicken the settlers.
2 the Swampland had mosquitoes that carry diseases,
3 they didn’t have a clue how to grow crops
4 there was no gold which is what they were looking for
5 There were harsh winters
6 There were Indians that would attack them
7 they had poorly made homes

Question 19

Be familiar with the people who first sell Virginia. What were their backgrounds? how did their attitudes contribute to problems faced by the Jamestown Settlement?

Answer 19

They were gentlemen adventurers, soldiers, or people trying to escape dead, there were all men, they wanted to find gold come and get rich, and return to England, and they didn’t bring their families, and they argued because they didn’t want to work, and so they could hardly survive.

Question 20

Why were the colonists angry with Governor Berkeley?

Answer 20

He didn’t give them protection from Indians

Question 21

Compare being a slave to being an indentured servant.

Answer 21

Slaves never got to leave work, but indentured servants got to leave after the allotted time had passed. Also, the slaves never wanted to or agreed to work, but the indentured servants actually agreed to work.

Question 22

Why did slavery grow an importance in Virginia?

Answer 22

Life was getting better in England, so fewer people came over to the new world, so there are a fewer indentured servants. The plantation owners didn’t want to do the hard work of growing tobacco, so they needed workers for that. They also wanted cheap workers so that they could keep all the money for themselves.

Question 23

How did slave owners try to keep enslaved Africans from revolting?

Answer 23

They restricted them and their rights. For example, first they used to be able to buy their freedom, but later they restricted their freedoms and they couldn’t buy their freedom. Also in South Carolina, some slaves ran away to Florida, but there they got punished for what they had done so as to motivate future other slaves to never think of doing that.

Question 24

Where was the largest slave uprising?

Answer 24

South Carolina

Question 25

If good land was taken, where would the settlers go?

Answer 25

To the frontier

Question 26

Why did settlers want to own land?

Answer 26

To vote they needed land and they wanted to vote
also land is how you grow crops and also that’s how you make money and live

Question 27

How did the settlers wanting land affect the Indians?

Answer 27

The sellers wanted to take Indians land but the Indians already had the land and they were living on it, so the sellers killed the Indians come and though the Indians retaliated there were still driven off their land.

Question 28

How important is it to work together? Do we need it to survive?

Answer 28

We do need to work together, because when the settlers didn’t work, they nearly died.
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