Describe each the three long-term effect of colonial settlement in Jamestown. Find a quote from the book that supports your response.
Tobacco
Huge cash crop, anyone could plant and sell it for profit. “A tobacco rush swept over Virginia, as crops were planted in the streets of Jamestown and even between the numerous graves.”(27)
Slave Trade
The slave trade system led to a vast population of Africans in the West Indies. “By about around 1700, black slaves outnumbered white settlers in the English West Indies by nearly four to one, and the region’s population has remained predominately black ever since.
Representative Government
The House Of Burgesses led to the development of many other self representative parliaments in America. “A momentous precedent was thus feebly established, for this assemblage was the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish on american soil.”(28)
What is meant by the term “plantation colony”? What were the plantation colonies? Why did they rely on indentured servitude? Define indentured servitude.
The term “plantation colony” meant a colony that had expansive farmland …show more content…
Carolina was established by 8 English aristocrats granted by King Charles II. In 1712 the colony split into North Carolina and South carolina because the north and the west felt like they were too different from each other to be one colony.
“Regarded as riff raff by their snobbish neighbors, the North Carolinians earned a reputation for being resistant to authority, irreligious, and hospitable to pirates.”(31)
Georgia was founded in 1733, by a group of philanthropist, and was the last of the thirteen colonies to be established. It was intended, by the Britain king George II to serve as a buffer, territory between two opposing powers, to protect valuable parts of the Carolinas against Spaniards from florida and and the French from
Tobacco
Huge cash crop, anyone could plant and sell it for profit. “A tobacco rush swept over Virginia, as crops were planted in the streets of Jamestown and even between the numerous graves.”(27)
Slave Trade
The slave trade system led to a vast population of Africans in the West Indies. “By about around 1700, black slaves outnumbered white settlers in the English West Indies by nearly four to one, and the region’s population has remained predominately black ever since.
Representative Government
The House Of Burgesses led to the development of many other self representative parliaments in America. “A momentous precedent was thus feebly established, for this assemblage was the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish on american soil.”(28)
What is meant by the term “plantation colony”? What were the plantation colonies? Why did they rely on indentured servitude? Define indentured servitude.
The term “plantation colony” meant a colony that had expansive farmland …show more content…
Carolina was established by 8 English aristocrats granted by King Charles II. In 1712 the colony split into North Carolina and South carolina because the north and the west felt like they were too different from each other to be one colony.
“Regarded as riff raff by their snobbish neighbors, the North Carolinians earned a reputation for being resistant to authority, irreligious, and hospitable to pirates.”(31)
Georgia was founded in 1733, by a group of philanthropist, and was the last of the thirteen colonies to be established. It was intended, by the Britain king George II to serve as a buffer, territory between two opposing powers, to protect valuable parts of the Carolinas against Spaniards from florida and and the French from