Section 4: Southern Colonies

Question 1

Indentured Servants

Answer 1

poor people who were given free passage to the colonies in exchange for work; provided most of the labor on tobacco plantations in Virginia; life was short+brutal

Question 2

Bacon’s rebellion

Answer 2

an attack on Native American villages; showed that government could not ignore the demands of its people

Question 3

Nathaniel Bacon

Answer 3

a young planter in western Virginia; He opposed the colonial government because it was dominated by easterners; was on the verge of taking over Jamestown but he ended up becoming ill and dying

Question 4

Political characteristics of southern Colonies

Answer 4

political power = controlled by few wealthy, rich planters; only land-owning men could vote; House of Burgesses = 1st ex. of possible democracy

Question 5

Economic characteristics of Southern colonies

Answer 5

carolinas + Georgia grew indigo + rice (cash crops); tobacco = main crop on plantations ins Virginia; Indentured servants provided labor; replaced by enslaved Africans (end of 1600’s)

Question 6

social characteristics of southern colonies

Answer 6

sparse population; little access to education + religion; structure = wealthy planters on top, poor whites + black slaves at bottom

Question 7

geography + climate characteristics of southern colonies

Answer 7

hot summers, mild winters; soil = perf. for farming; growing szn = longer than other regions; most of south = dominated by large plantations

Question 8

middle passage

Answer 8

the sea journey of enslaved Africans from west Africa to the Americas

Question 9

triangular trade

Answer 9

the exchange of raw materials going to Europe, manufactured goods to Africa and enslaved Africans to the Americas