United States History 17A
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Study Guide 1
The First Century of Settlement
in the Colonial South
Go to the page: Blank
Map. Using the maps in your textbook, Nation of Nations,
you should be able to locate on this
blank map the six (6) southern colonies. A map
like this will appear on your first
midterm.
Nation of Nations, Chapter Two
Answer the following questions:
I. English Society on the Chesapeake
1. For what 3 reasons did Powhatan
let the English survive at Jamestown?
2. Mercantilism was an economic theory
practiced by all major European countries.
What was the primary objective
of mercantilism?
3. Why did the theory of mercantilsim
appeal to European monarchs?
4. What was the name of the English
joint stock company that founded Jamestown?
What year was this colony
founded?
5. Why was the Jamestown fort built
on an inland peninsula? What was unfortunate about
this site?
6. Another reform was the creation
of the House of Burgesses. What was its function?
7. What percent of the thousands of
immigrants to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century,
(1607 - 1700), were indentured servants?
8. What was an indentured servant?
How long were their terms?
9. Why did efforts to diversify the
economy of Virginia fail?
10. What crop dominated the economic
life in the Chesapeake and Virginia?
Go to the page: TobaccoCulture.
Read about how difficult it was to grow tobacco in the colonial period
and then answer the following questions:
11. What were the three things that a planter needed to grow
tobacco successfully in the Chesapeake?
II. Chesapeake Society in Crisis
12. Before 1680, why were English servants
preferrred over African slaves?
13. In 1675, what % of the population
of the Chesapeake was black?
14. After 1680, what were 3 reasons
why planters began to invest more heavily in slaves than
in servants?
15. Much of the slave trade in Africa
was centered between ___ and ___? See p. 55
16. What was the 'Middle Passage?'
How long was it? How many Africans were crowded
onto these ships? How
many died on this journey?
17. What percent of Africans died during
the first year of captivity in the Chesapeake?
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August 30, 2004
by Tom Gallup, e-mail address: tom_gallup@westvalley.edu
West Valley College
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