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15 Cards in this Set
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When was Jamestown happening, who started it, and why?
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1587-1770 or around 1590-1770, The Virginia stock company started it, and because they got a charter.
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What were the three colonial regions?
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New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.
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What was the joint stock company?
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A company in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its profit. The Virginia Stock Company for this.
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Who was John Smith, and why was he important?
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He was th leader in Jamestown, his motto was: No work, no food. He was harsh! He was "rescued" by Pocahontas. he got the colonists through the first hard winter.
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Who was Pocahontas, and why was she important?
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Pocahontas "saved" John Smith, married John Rolfe, and was the bridge between the Native Americans and the colonists. Which pretty much stopped the fighting.
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Who was John Rolfe, and why was he important?
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John Rolfe was a colonist who started the tobacco plant, married Pocahontas, was a bridge between the colonist and the Native Americans.
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What are cash crops, and where would they probably be grown?
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They were crops that sold and grew particularly well, and they would probably have been grown in the Southern Colonies, and part of the Middle Colonies.
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What was subsistence farming?
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Where a farmer would only grow enough food to feed his family.
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What was the house of Burgesses?
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It was all the burgesses/ representatives from all the different towns and cities in the colony. they had assembly's/ meetings.
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Why did people come to America?
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For free religion, more money, and to make a living.
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What were the different types of colonial governments, how did they work?
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Charter colonies=made by people who had been given a charter. They elected their members of legislate and governor, but the king could approve the governor.
Proprietary Colonies= ruled by proprietors/people who Britain had given land to. the elected the governor and upper house, while the colonists elected the lower house. Royal colonies= the king choose the upper house and governor, which pretty much did what the British told them, while the colonists elected the lower house. This created conflicts. |
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Everything about the New England Colonies:
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MA, NH, CT, and RI. Hard farming = little food, little $, so instead many small businesses, fish and ships, and the triangle trade. The middle passage was slavery.
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What were the Native Americans relationship with the colonists?
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They had fights about owning the land, but it got a bit better when Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
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Everything about the Middle Colonies:
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DA, NY, NJ, 1/2 VT. Took NY and bought DA from Dutch. NY=Harbor city, main place=Manhattan. king gave NY to duke of York, and gave NJ to someone, who named it after the Island of Jersey, PA was bought by the king, who hot rid of a debt by giving it to the Quakers, cash crops=iron and grain.
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Everything about the Southern Colonies?
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Good farming because it was so warm, cash crop in NA MD= tobacco, cash crop in SC and GA= rice, plantations were few and huge, these people in politics, "back country" people grew tobacco and corn on small farms,they out number th plantation owners.
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