Plantations

Question 1

To plant

Answer 1

To put a plant into the ground

Question 2

Merchants’ Hope Plantation
Originally Awarded to Captain Nathaniel Powell

Answer 2

Patent subsequently awarded to Captain William Barker (captain of many ships including Merchants Hope)

Question 3

Captain William Barker

Answer 3

Front man for the merchant syndicate

Question 4

Most adventurers invested in Virginia

Answer 4

Never actually went there

Question 5

Barker transported

Answer 5

Tenants, labourers and workers to his estate via headright

Question 6

Barker purchased land from

Answer 6

Elizabeth Peirsey (Flowerdew Hundred plantation)

Question 7

John Barker

Answer 7

Inherited Merchants’ Hope from his father
Southern-bank plantations collapsed late 17thC

Question 8

No evidence of

Answer 8

Indigenous or African people within Barker’s patent

Question 9

Plantation term was

Answer 9

No regularly used in contemporary writing

Question 10

If plantation was specifically used

Answer 10

It was often in relation to an area of woodland deliberately planted

Question 11

Indigenous planting

Answer 11

Showed the English how to grow crops

Question 12

English planters

Answer 12

Planted tobacco
Act of deliberately introducing a root into the ground

Question 13

Tobacco has been described as a

Answer 13

Weed (because of its introduction)
Cash crop

Question 14

Those who planted were

Answer 14

Humble positions in white society
Husbandmen

Question 15

English were planting more than crops

Answer 15

Christianity (Protestantism)
Education
English law, order and governance

Question 16

Shirley plantation
Established 1614

Answer 16

450 acres
North bank of James River
First settled by De la Warr
1638 granted to Edward Hill

Question 17

Plantation House

Answer 17

Argument whether structures were expected to replicate those in England or adapted to local conditions and expediency

Question 18

Brick and lime makers

Answer 18

Artisans who travelled to both Roanoke and Jamestown settlements
Created permanent structures

Question 19

People of the plantation society

Answer 19

Master and family
Headright indentured servants
Black African slaves

Question 20

Plantation society

Answer 20

Land (and therefore social and political power) in the hands of a small white elite
Land concentrated because profitable estates required economies of scale and a profitable crop

Question 21

Late 17thC plantation society

Answer 21

Less reliant on indentured servants
More reliant on black slave labour

Question 22

Plantation land

Answer 22

Lines around the estate
Acreage and boundaries of an estateH

Question 23

Plantation Household

Answer 23

People who lived on the estate
Slaves as personal property (classed as livestock)

Question 24

Slaves left to children

Answer 24

In parent’s wills