Georgia
________: served as a buffer colony against Spanish & French threat, penal colony for debtors, and originally banned slavery.
Nathaniel Bacon
________ leads a rebellion against Indians on the frontier & burned Jamestown.
Headright System
________: get land if you paid for somebody's journey to the colony.
England
________ defeats the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Proprietorship
________: land is given by the king to an individual or group.
Royal
________: paid for and ruled directly by the monarchy.
force of Virginia
Indentured Servants served as the early labor ________.
Tobacco
________ provided the colony with a "cash crop "and led to the rise of plantation system.
John Smith
________ established military discipline and saved the colony.
Joint Stock Company
________: stockholders invest in a company and share in the potential profits or lossed from the colony; Corporate colony.
John Rolfe
________ introduced the cultivation of tobacco.
Proprietorship
________: Lord Balitmore given land by the king.
Joint Stock Company
stockholders invest in a company and share in the potential profits or lossed from the colony; Corporate colony
Proprietorship
land is given by the king to an individual or group
Starving Period
many of the original settlers die of disease
Headright System
get land if you paid for somebody's journey to the colony
Background
Growing frustration with
Impact
Leads to transition to AFRICAN CHATTEL SLAVE LABOR
Proprietorship
Lord Balitmore given land by the king
Act of Toleration (1649)
religious freedom for all Christians (Intended especially to protect Catholics)
South Carolina
cash crop (rice) plantation economy, wealthy aristocratic elite, African slave labor
North Carolina- different
small tobacco farmers, less reliance on slavery
Caribbean (Barbados & Jamaica)
cash crop (sugar cane), strict slave labor system from the start
Georgia
served as a buffer colony against Spanish & French threat, penal colony for debtors, and originally banned slavery