Period 2: Chapter 2 Flashcards
Why was slave treatment worse the farther down one went?
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)
How did the slave trade get brought to the Carolinas?
Carolina settlers came from Barbados, bringing the enslaved with them which set up a vigorous slave trade in the Carolinas
Charleston
Had a religious tolerance where many people (outcasts) were able to come which made a diverse area
Principle crop in the Carolinas
Rice
Act of Toleration
A law that tolerated all Christians in Maryland but not other people like the Jewish and Atheists
Primogeniture Laws
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
Tobacco
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
1st permanent settlement
Jamestown, Virginia (1607)
John Smith
Led survival in Jamestown and was the reason why it was successful
John Rolfe
Husband of Pocahontas
Father of the tobacco industry
Perfected tobacco
Pioneer of making money through farming
Characteristics of French and Dutch colonization
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
Characteristics of English colonization
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
3Ds
Disease, disorganization, and disposability
The reason that many Native Americans died
Navigation Acts
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
Mercantilism
Economic philosophy that colonists exist for the mother country
Characteristics of Spanish colonization
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)
England’s 1st attempt at colonization
Roanoke Island (1585)
Off coast of Virginia, near Jamestown
Did not survive
What was Georgia used as in the beginning?
A buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida
1st Angle-Powhatan War
De La Warr began it in 1610
Ended by marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas in 1614
2nd Anglo-Powhatan War
Happened in 1644
Provoked by colonists’ further intrusion on Native American land
Forced Native Americans to separate settlement
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588
Ended Spanish colonial dominance that existed from 1493 in Central and South America
