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27 Cards in this Set
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In 1606, Charles I let what Company have more than 6 million acres in the NW? Why?
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The Virginia Company in hopes of establishing the English equivalent of Spain's New World empire.
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What was the Virginia Company?
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A joint-stock company that was a royal license to poach on both Spanish and Powhatan's claims.
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Who was Richard Haklyt?
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A strong proponent of colonization who claimed that a colony would provide work for swarms of poor.
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What were the names of the 3 ships that landed in NW and built a town called Jamestown?
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1. Susan Constant
2. Godspeed 3. Discovery |
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Where was Jamestown?
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Virginia
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What kind of people comprised the city of Jamestown?
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Gentlemen and Servants!
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What happened to the people of Jamestown?
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Largely starved to death due to no knowledge of farming
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Who was the leader of Jamestown?
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Captain John Smith
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How many people survived Jamestown?
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38 people
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What was the House of Burgesses?
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An assembly of representatives (called burgesses) elected by the colony's (Virginia colony) inhabitants.
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The demise of the Virginia Company marked the end of what?
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The first phase of colonization of the Chesapeake region
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What are two major disadvantages of growing Tobacco?
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1. Extremely labor intensive
2. Exhausts soil after a few yields |
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Who discovered that tobacco seeds grew crazily well in Virginia?
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John Rolfe
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What three things gave poor English folk powerful incentives to move to the NW?
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1. Headrights
2. Cheap land 3. High wages |
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In order to pay for passage across the Atlantic, what did some poor English folk do?
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Became Indentured Servants
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How long did an Indentured Servant typically work?
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4 to 7 years
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What was a Yeoman Farmer?
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A farmer who owned a small plot of land sufficient to support a family and tilled largely by servants and family members.
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The first half of the 17th century in the Chesapeake was the era of what farmer?
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Yeoman farmer!
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Why was there a shift from indentured servants to slave labor?
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While slaves typically cost more than servants, they lasted longer due to decreased mortality rates, they never became free, and children of slave mothers were slaves themselves.
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What was the most profitable part of the English New World empire in the 17th century?
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Sugar plantations in Barbados and slavery!
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What was the Navigational Acts?
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Anything coming from Britain must come to Virginia at British ports off of British ships (to "keep it in the family" as it were.)
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Why was the Navigational Act made?
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Done so Britain and the crown would get all the money from the trade to the NW.
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What was Bacon's Rebellion?
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Rebellion between the lesser and greater Grandees after newly freed indentured servants couldn't get land of their own. Bacon dies suddenly and rebellion just ends.
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What 4 things made Slave Labor "better" than Indentured servants?
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1. Slaves never get freedom
2. Perpetual labor force 3. Could be controlled politically 4. color difference meant easily traceable if they ran away |
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What crop made Virginia Profitable?
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Tobacco!
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When was the transatlantic slave trade made illegal?
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1808
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What is Diaspora? Example?
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Whole population leaving an area to move to another - happens in Africa when whites take entire villages to NW
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