The Tobacco Boom

Question 1

Virginia is saved by

Answer 1

Tobacco

Question 2

______ pounds exported annually from Virginia

Answer 2

35 million

Question 3

Since people in Jamestown were dying anyway,

Answer 3

investors said “lets squeeze out all the juice we can” –> worked to death

Question 4

Types of servitude

Answer 4

1. Bond servant
2. Apprentices/Duty boys
3. Tenant

Question 5

Bond servant

Answer 5

Room and board for teens agreeing to work 7 yrs

Question 6

Apprentices/Duty boys

Answer 6

14 total years, accused of disobedience, clock turned back to day 1

Question 7

Tenant

Answer 7

got to keep half of labor’s products

Question 8

Population eventually begins to grow

Answer 8

As people move away from Jamestown (microbes), agriculture techniques are adopted from natives, cider is made (cleaner than water)

Question 9

Native agriculture technique

Answer 9

Girdling: cut ring into park to kill tree –> sunlight can penetrate

Question 10

Instead of fertilizing, natives….

Answer 10

rotate land

Question 11

Society becomes…

Answer 11

matriarchal –> gold digger men marry rich old women

Question 12

As tenants become freemen,

Answer 12

they can plant own tobacco –> prices drop/competition –>growers want to make life as hard as possible

Question 13

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 13

Freedmen rebel against growers for exploitation

Question 14

As white servants are not willing to work,

Answer 14

need new labor force –> slavery