Unit 5 - AAH Study Guide

William Berkeley

________ was the governor of Virginia and supported the tidewater planters (farmers closer to the coast; prime real estate)

John Rolfe

1612: ________ smuggles from Spain and grows tobacco and saves the colony.

Spanish Armada

The english won victory over the ________ in 1588.

Sharecropper

________: tenant farmer who gives a part of crop as rent.

supply of labor

Indentured Servants were the ________ to harvest crops and process tobacco.

Slaves

________ were not used exclusively until 1700.

Bacon

________ was a British aristocrat who migrated to Virginia and led a group of backcountry farmers.

indigenous people

They were the ________ (original inhabitants) of the Americas.

Apartheid

________: policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

Slave codes

________: unjust slave laws that denied the slaves their social rights.

The British Isles

English, Welsh, Scots, Irish (WEIS)

1612

John Rolfe smuggles from Spain and grows tobacco and saves the colony

1619

The first African slave was brought to the English colonies (Virginia)

Discrimination

English saw themselves as superior (Irish, Indians, Africans)

Slavery

natural condition for blacks

1660 to 1710

Slave codes further cemented Africans condition

Slave codes

unjust slave laws that denied the slaves their social rights

Backcountry farmers

inland farmers

Staple crop was rice

> Cotton (1700s)

1734

Slavery was banned

Mulattoes

mixed African and European ancestry

Creolization

cultural exchange

Sharecropper

tenant farmer who gives a part of crop as rent

Apartheid

policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race

Lynch

exiled without trial