SOUTHERN COLONIES TERMS Flashcards
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Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
proprietary colony
owned by people/company
royal colony
owned by the monarch/king or queen
charter
a written grant/document giving permission to start a colony
Jamestown
the first permanent English colony in North America, begun in 1607 along the James river in Virgina
John smith
English colonist who helped save the Jamestown colony from starvation in 1608
joint-stock company
a business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses
pocahontes
daughter of Powhatan who married colonist John Rolfe, helping temporarily bring peace between the Powhatan people and the colonist
John rolfe
Jamestown colonist who married Pocahontas and made tobacco a valuable cash crop
plantation
a large farm that usually specializes in growing one kind of crop and depended on enslaved labor
headright system
the Virgina’s company’s policy of granting 50 acres of land to settlers in the Jamestown colony
indentured servant
a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
bacons rebellion
an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in 1676, in Virgina
toleration act of 1649
a Maryland law that made restricting the religious right of Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America.
Oladah Equiano
a slave who recorded his awful experiences in the narative
