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Chapter 3 The Southern Colonies 1601-1700

Chapter 3 The Southern Colonies 1601-1700. What was the first southern colony and who started it? What Indian tribe captured the man who started it? Who saved him? - Why did she save him, and what happened after she did?. Jamestown . Jamestown . John Smith? Powhatan? Algonquaian

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Chapter 3 The Southern Colonies 1601-1700

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  1. Chapter 3 The Southern Colonies 1601-1700 What was the first southern colony and who started it? What Indian tribe captured the man who started it? Who saved him? - Why did she save him, and what happened after she did?

  2. Jamestown

  3. Jamestown • John Smith? • Powhatan? Algonquaian • 1613? • Pocahontas? • John Rolfe? • Thomas Rolfe? • Problems in the beginning? Who helped save them and how was it good for both groups. • What was the major source of income for Jamestown? • Indentured servants? What will follow them? Where did they get them from?

  4. POCAHONTAS

  5. CHESAPEAKE COLONIES • What happened in 1588? How does that effect the decision to colonize the Americas? • What area is the Chesapeake Region? • What is the Virginia Company? How was it formed? • How did they get six million acres, and who was it taken from? • What happened when Powhatan died? Who took over? What was his first move as leader? What was the effect of this move? • What did King James do in 1622? How did it effect the colonies? • What is the House of Burgess? What gave people right to vote for the House of Burgess?

  6. Chesapeake Region

  7. Tobacco Society • Who brought the tobacco plant to that area? • Was it the first time to be grown in the Americas? Were they the first to bring it to Europe? • How much could laborers buy 100 acres for in the colonies? Could they do this in England? • What is a headright? • How does a headright lead into indentured servants? • Beyond the money for a headright how much money would the people need to come to the colonies? • What percentage of immigrants where servants in the early 1600s?

  8. Tobacco Cont. • How long was a servant indentured? Did most of them serve their full term? • Most of the indentured servants were men, how did the women get the new world? • What was the difference between an indentured servant and a slave? • Look at the Virginia Laws for servants and slaves. • What was common punishment for servants who committed a crime? • What was the religion of the Chesapeake colonist?

  9. Tobacco Cont. • Era of the Yeoman- small farms with few servants. • How was the equality of life during the Yeoman era? • What were the 3 major developments that splintered equality? • What became the two social groups in the colonies? • Why did they not trust each other? • What voting laws made these two groups hate each other more? • What is the Navigation act of 1650,51 and 1660?

  10. Opechancanough Revenge • After the attack in 1622, the chief stayed silent until 1644 when he killed 400 colonist in 2 days. • This led to a treaty… what did it state and did it last? • How did this treaty and these battles affect the two social groups in the colonies? • This treaty will lead to an uprising, who starts the uprising?

  11. Bacons Rebellion • Started in 1676 by Nathanial Bacon, a small farmer on the edge of Indian Territory. • Governor Berkeley made Bacon rebel and held a house of Burgess vote that would result in what? • Bacons Laws? • What is the outcome of Bacons Rebellion and how will it effect the colonist social standings among the two groups we spoke about?

  12. Spanish Colonies and the Carolinas • Where were the two Spanish Colonies located? • What was there main purpose? • Were they profitable for the Spain? • What will be the outcome of these and how does it all come about? • Where did the settlers of Charleston South Carolina come from, and what was the success of this place? • What was the first crop they tried to produce? What will be the crop they survive on? • Did the emergence of slaves eliminate social unrest among the colonist?

  13. Ch. 3 Quiz • Why had slave labor largely displaced indentured servants by 1700? • Why did the vast majority of immigrants to the Chesapeake come as indentured servants? • What did Bacons rebellion expose in the colony and did the outcome help with the problem? • What are the major differences between Jamestown and Chraleston?

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