23 Regions in the British Col - 5807175.3: Regions of the British Colonies

1. Which was the first English colony established in the Americas?

Chesapeake, jamestown

How was jamestown funded?

by joint stock companies

1. Why did the Jamestown colony struggle so much initially?

famine (shortage of food) and disease

1. What finally saved the Jamestown colonists from their own ineptitude?

tobacco

How did tobacco do it?

john rolfe, really good crop

1. What was the primary source of labor in Virginia colony?

indentured servants

indentured servants

signed seven year labor contract, work to pay off settlement fees and then they went free

1. Other than profit, what was the effect of the discovery that tobacco grew well in Virginia?

farmers needed more land leading to them encroaching of native american lands which led to tension

1. What were the causes and effects of Bacon’s Rebellion?

• Cause: Nathaniel Bacon was an angry farmer and he led an attack on the indians along with other servants 

• Effect: They began seekings a new source of labor because they saw the growing population of indentured servants

1. Why did the Puritans (pilgrims) come to the Americas?

they were unhappy with the theology of america and wanted to leave so they can live by their own conscious and relgious freedom

1. How were Puritan immigrant groups organized? How did this contribute to their success?

family groups and came to esatblish a soceity not just economic profit

1. In the Caribbean, tobacco was the original cash crop. By the 1630’s, what had replaced it?

sugar cane and caused a demand for african american slaves

1. How can slavery on Caribbean sugarcane plantations be characterized?

majority of people at barbadeos was black

what are slave codes

strictly regulated their behavior and defined ensalved people as porpety

1. What were the primary exports from New Jersey and New York?

lived near waters so cereal crops

1. What was the social hierarchy of the Middle Colonies?

• Had diverse populations that ovetimes became increasingly unequal due to an emerging elite class 

• Urban merchants on top, artisans/shopkeepers, unskilled laborers/orphans/widows/unemployed, last was enslaved africans

1. Who founded Pennsylvania Colony? What made it unique?

William Penn, Unique because religious freedom was recognized for all an sought to expand their land holdings because they mostly negotiated with the Indians

1. What was the common characteristic that each region of the colonies shared?

• Common was democratic systems of governance

What is the house of burgesses

Virginia, representative assembly which would levy taxes on pop and pass laws

• Mayflower Compact

New england, organized government on self-governing