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Virginia/Georgia Flashcards

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What were the reasons for settlement in Georgia?

A

Poor people to stay out of prison
Freedom
New lives

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Government of Georgia?

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Self governing

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Economy of Georgia?

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Farming (plantations and independent farms) trade, skilled labor

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Religion in Georgia

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Various faiths

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Religion in Virginia

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Church of England

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Economy of Virginia

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Farming(plantations and small independent farms)

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Government of Virginia

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Self governing with elected assembly

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What was the elected assembly of Virginia called?

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The house of burgesses

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What was the climate and geography of New England?

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Rocky, thin soil
Long cold winters
Jagged coastlines
Richest fishing grounds in the world

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New England economy?

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Small subsistence farmers, shipbuilders, lumber men, fur traders, fishing whaling and merchants

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Where did most families live in New England

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On small farms

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In New England colonies, geography led to ___ being means of income besides ___

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Forests
Farming

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Who were the founders of Virginia?

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Sir Walter Raleigh and the Virginia Company

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Settlers of Virginia?

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English landowners, laborers, people seeking profit

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Economy of Virginia?

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Farming(plantations and small independent farms)

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What did the descendants of the early Jamestown settlers become?

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Wealthy landowners and important people in Virginia

17
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What was the economy of Virginia based on and what was the problem?

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Tobacco
Needed vast areas of land
Large number of laborers

18
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Who did the planters try to enslave at first and what happened?

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Local Native American tribes but they died of disease they caught from the English or escaped

19
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Who were the second group of people the tobacco planters tried?
What did they get in return (experience-wise)

A

Poverty stricken from England to be indentured servants for 5 to 7 years in return for a free passage to Virginia.

20
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What were the indentured servants given at the end of their 5 to 7 year service?

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Freedom along with a small plot of land, some clothing, tools, and seeds

21
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Explain what happened with the first Africans brought to Virginia.

A

They were brought as indentured servants and had the same rights and freedoms as white servants.

22
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Why did planters start enslaving Africans and their descendants?

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Fewer Europeans wanted to work on plantations, it was quicker and cheaper

23
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What happened with the term of enslavement for Africans

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It never ended and continued for generations and was a major part of the economic developments of the colonies and later the USA

24
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What was the assembly the Virginians elected called and what did it pass

A

The house of burgesses and passed a law that enslaved Africans workers for life

25
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By 1700, more than ___ of Virginias population were enslaved. Colonists in Virginia came to view slavery as…

A

1/4
Essential to the colony’s economic success

26
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Why was the Georgia, the last colony, established?
Who started it as a business plan?

A

A group of Englishmen whose business plan was to help poor people in England stay out of debtors prison

27
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Who inspired wealthy Englishmen to establish a colony for this reason (Georgia)

A

James Oglethorpe

28
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Why did King George like James Oglethorpe plan for the poor?

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It would keep Spanish from moving north out of Florida and Georgia would stand between Spanish Florida and the rest of the British colonies to the north

29
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What actually happened with the settlers in Georgia?

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There weren’t many poor people who wanted to start new lives so the colonists who went with Olgethorpe to Georgia were adventures and people seeking religious freedom

30
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Why was life difficult in Georgia

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Spaniards kept attacking bc they wanted Georgia and Georgians fought them off without help from ab rithis colonies

31
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Olgelthorpe had ___ ideas on how the colonists should live
What were they

A

Specific and strict
He wanted the colony to be a perfect society and establishidhed laws against alcohol and slavery and wanted the settlers to live on farms

32
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After ___ years of governing, Olgethorpe returned to England
What did the people of Georgia do then?

A

12 years
They elected an assembly and did the opposite of what Olgethorpe made laws about

33
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What was special about the house of burgesses?

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It was the first democratically elected council in Northern America

34
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12 years after the establishment of Georgia, James Olgethorpe was ___ by the people.

A

Overthrown

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