Virginia/Georgia Flashcards
What were the reasons for settlement in Georgia?
Poor people to stay out of prison
Freedom
New lives
Government of Georgia?
Self governing
Economy of Georgia?
Farming (plantations and independent farms) trade, skilled labor
Religion in Georgia
Various faiths
Religion in Virginia
Church of England
Economy of Virginia
Farming(plantations and small independent farms)
Government of Virginia
Self governing with elected assembly
What was the elected assembly of Virginia called?
The house of burgesses
What was the climate and geography of New England?
Rocky, thin soil
Long cold winters
Jagged coastlines
Richest fishing grounds in the world
New England economy?
Small subsistence farmers, shipbuilders, lumber men, fur traders, fishing whaling and merchants
Where did most families live in New England
On small farms
In New England colonies, geography led to ___ being means of income besides ___
Forests
Farming
Who were the founders of Virginia?
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Virginia Company
Settlers of Virginia?
English landowners, laborers, people seeking profit
Economy of Virginia?
Farming(plantations and small independent farms)
What did the descendants of the early Jamestown settlers become?
Wealthy landowners and important people in Virginia
What was the economy of Virginia based on and what was the problem?
Tobacco
Needed vast areas of land
Large number of laborers
Who did the planters try to enslave at first and what happened?
Local Native American tribes but they died of disease they caught from the English or escaped
Who were the second group of people the tobacco planters tried?
What did they get in return (experience-wise)
Poverty stricken from England to be indentured servants for 5 to 7 years in return for a free passage to Virginia.
What were the indentured servants given at the end of their 5 to 7 year service?
Freedom along with a small plot of land, some clothing, tools, and seeds
Explain what happened with the first Africans brought to Virginia.
They were brought as indentured servants and had the same rights and freedoms as white servants.
Why did planters start enslaving Africans and their descendants?
Fewer Europeans wanted to work on plantations, it was quicker and cheaper
What happened with the term of enslavement for Africans
It never ended and continued for generations and was a major part of the economic developments of the colonies and later the USA
What was the assembly the Virginians elected called and what did it pass
The house of burgesses and passed a law that enslaved Africans workers for life
By 1700, more than ___ of Virginias population were enslaved. Colonists in Virginia came to view slavery as…
1/4
Essential to the colony’s economic success
Why was the Georgia, the last colony, established?
Who started it as a business plan?
A group of Englishmen whose business plan was to help poor people in England stay out of debtors prison
Who inspired wealthy Englishmen to establish a colony for this reason (Georgia)
James Oglethorpe
Why did King George like James Oglethorpe plan for the poor?
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
What actually happened with the settlers in Georgia?
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
Why was life difficult in Georgia
Spaniards kept attacking bc they wanted Georgia and Georgians fought them off without help from ab rithis colonies
Olgelthorpe had ___ ideas on how the colonists should live
What were they
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
After ___ years of governing, Olgethorpe returned to England
What did the people of Georgia do then?
12 years
They elected an assembly and did the opposite of what Olgethorpe made laws about
What was special about the house of burgesses?
It was the first democratically elected council in Northern America
12 years after the establishment of Georgia, James Olgethorpe was ___ by the people.
Overthrown
