Chapter 3 Flashcards

(33 cards)

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Virginia company were granted a charter by king james

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royal license to poach on Spanish claims and Indian lands

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2
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they also had major problems with

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diease and starvation

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3
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traditional notions of class and labor

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most were gentlemen and their servants

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4
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helped turn the Virginia colony into a profitable venture

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tabacco

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5
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biggest obstacle facing farmers

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lack of workers

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6
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head right policy

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settlers who paid their own transportation would receive 50 acres

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7
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once service is complete servant received

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freedom dues

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8
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reasons for indentured servitude

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solve labor shortage in America, economic circumstances in England, high costs of travel, head rights incentive

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9
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planters will devise laws to extend periods of servitude and keep servants in their place

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committed a crime

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10
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17th century chesapeake society essentially

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servants and free labor

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11
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servants saw themselves as free people

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who were only temporally servants

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12
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most indentured servants came from the lower class

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poor young men from england

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unlike servants in England, chesapeake servants

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had no control over who purchased their labor

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14
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Baltimore’s planned refuge for catholics

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sees the catholics feeding with the protestant majority

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15
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yeoman farmers (Planters)

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small plot of land worked primarily by himself and his family

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16
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the easy availability of and will also

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contribute to this degree of frontier equality

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the decline in the price of tobacco changed the chesapeake, in that it saw the

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emergence of social divisons

18
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social structure was polarized based on

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land ownership

19
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political equality decreased during the 1660s and 1670s

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only land owners can vote

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Bacon’s laws … at the expense of planter elites

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transferred power to newcomers and small farmers

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the conflict ends up being between

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planter elites vs small farmers

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most profitable colony of the British new world empire in the 17th century lay in the caribbean

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settlers in ________ are from immigrants from barados

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______ is the main source of black slavery to the cheseapeake

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enormously profitable
rice
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-Bacons rebellion begain over... -bacon and the colonists prinicple demand... -governor Berkeley response.... -bacons response(the result of berkleys response) -results of bacons rebellion
-colonial indian policy -is that the indians should not be protected -declares bacon a rebel and calls for new elections in the house of burgesses -declares war on berkley and the planters elite -black slavery introduced
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Bacons laws .... at the expense of planter elites
transferred power to newcomers and small farmers
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the conflict ends up being between
planter elites vs small farmers
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most profitable colony of the british new world empire in 17th century lay in the caribean
barbados
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settlers in ________ are from immigrants from barabados
carolinas
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________ is the main source of black slavery to the cheseapeake
barabados
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______ enormously profitable
rice
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tobacco planters converting their plantations from indentured to slaves for 3 reasons
-they never became freed -childrens of slaves mothers inherited the status of slavery thus providing a perpetuating labor force -slaves could be controlled legally