Period 2: Chapter 2

Question 1

Why was slave treatment worse the farther down one went?

Answer 1

Further down geographically makes it more labor intensive and harder

Crops being growing in southern parts (sugar cane) were harder and more intensive than crops being grown in more northern areas (tobacco)

Question 2

How did the slave trade get brought to the Carolinas?

Answer 2

Carolina settlers came from Barbados, bringing the enslaved with them which set up a vigorous slave trade in the Carolinas

Question 3

Charleston

Answer 3

Had a religious tolerance where many people (outcasts) were able to come which made a diverse area

Question 4

Principle crop in the Carolinas

Answer 4

Rice

Question 5

Act of Toleration

Answer 5

A law that tolerated all Christians in Maryland but not other people like the Jewish and Atheists

Question 6

Primogeniture Laws

Answer 6

Only the oldest son in the family would inherit things

Younger sons wanted to come to the New World so that they could have land of their own

Question 7

Tobacco

Answer 7

Extremely profitable

Depleted soil (Colonists further intruded on NA land)

Played an important role in putting the colony of a firm economic foundation

Most black people were enslaved to grow tobacco in the colony

Question 8

1st permanent settlement

Answer 8

Jamestown, Virginia (1607)

Question 9

John Smith

Answer 9

Led survival in Jamestown and was the reason why it was successful

Question 10

John Rolfe

Answer 10

Husband of Pocahontas

Father of the tobacco industry

Perfected tobacco

Pioneer of making money through farming

Question 11

Characteristics of French and Dutch colonization

Answer 11

Had friendly relationships with natives

Main goal was to get furs to export to Europe

Didn’t take much land and was fine with sharing

Sent fewer people most of which were men

Question 12

Characteristics of English colonization

Answer 12

Used Native Americans for survival for a few years and then pushed them off the land

Separated themselves

Sent full families to avoid intermarrying

Fought with Native Americans

Promoted mercantilism

Goals were religious freedom and crops

Question 13

3Ds

Answer 13

Disease, disorganization, and disposability

The reason that many Native Americans died

Question 14

Navigation Acts

Answer 14

Allowed colonies to only trade with England if they were an English colony or be under extreme supervision when trading with another country

People started smuggling things

Question 15

Mercantilism

Answer 15

Economic philosophy that colonists exist for the mother country

Question 16

Characteristics of Spanish colonization

Answer 16

Wanted precious metals (silver and gold)

Came with conquistadors

Had tight control over colonies

Were find with intermarrying and had mixed race families (Mestizo and Mulatto)

Question 17

England’s 1st attempt at colonization

Answer 17

Roanoke Island (1585)

Off coast of Virginia, near Jamestown

Did not survive

Question 18

What was Georgia used as in the beginning?

Answer 18

A buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida

Question 19

1st Angle-Powhatan War

Answer 19

De La Warr began it in 1610

Ended by marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas in 1614

Question 20

2nd Anglo-Powhatan War

Answer 20

Happened in 1644

Provoked by colonists’ further intrusion on Native American land

Forced Native Americans to separate settlement

Question 21

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Answer 21

1588

Ended Spanish colonial dominance that existed from 1493 in Central and South America