Southern Colonies Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland

Jamestown

Colony established in 1607 first ever colony.

Virginia Charter

Colonial document granting english rights and citizenships to ppl in virginia (Document of Freedom)

Powatans

N.A group in east virginia when eng settl get there

John Rolfe

Marries pocahontes and created a successful tobbaco strain

Headright System

A person who paid for the passage of a white indent serv recieved 50 acres of land

Anglo Powhatan Wars

series of wars caused by expansionary nature of tobbaco in early 17th cent.
HS: Kicked the powhatans completley out of E. Virginia

Act of tolerance

1649, granted religious tolerence to all chrisitans

life in chesapeake

lower life expectancy

Barbados slave codes

1661, laws that took away the rights from slaves meant to dehumanize them.

Owners allowed to beat slaves and it is illegal to teach slaves.

South Carolina

Tobbacco and Indigo
aristocratic

N. Carolina

few large plantations most democratic and least aristocratic of original 13.
Tobacco

Triangle Trade

Development from columbian exchancge route which allowed for slaves, goods, and materials to be traded between Africa Europ and the Americas in 1700s

HS: Led to development of middle passage between africa and americas in which millions of enslaved ppl died on route and were sold into bondage.

Middle passage- trade route allowed slaved to be captured but 40% died.

Royal African Company

Eng join stock co. that had a monopoly on the slave trade in the colonies. They lost the monopoly bc they could not keep up w demands.

Slave Codes

Laws that defined the social and political statud of slaved in relation to there owners.
Slave kids are property
crime to teach litteracy to slave

mullattos- mixed african race

Stono Rebellion

The largest slave insurrection in British Noth Amer. began on Sept 9 1739. Atleast 40 whites killed by rebeling slaves marched until a militia killed them,

The south carolina assymly enacted a harsh slave code until 1685. slave system became harder

More slaves to N Amer after 1700

The royal african co lost monopoly

Bacons rebellion demonstratses indent serv cannot be trusted