Chapter 5 Flashcards
(32 cards)
What was Virginias main cash crop
Tobacco
Who learned how to grow tobacco
John Rolfe
Where did tobacco sell well
London
A single crop it was said to be able to pay for a what
Virginia plantation.
Name the four colonies that were big on farming.
Virginia,Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia
Where were plantations commonly placed
Along rivers
Why did they plant along rivers.
The be able to transport the tobacco on oceangoing ships
What did they grow in South Carolina.
Rice and indigo
In the southern colonies the planters were in what class of people
Upper class
In the southern colonies the most commonly owned land was
Small farmland.
Some people settled on the ___________ the western edge of a settlement.
Frontier
Why did they buy land on the frontier
It was cheap land
Small farmers were in what class in the southern colonies
Middle class
Define homespun
Homemade
Coopers were what
This is just extra from class
Barrel makers
Hogsheads
Barrels
In 1699 Williamsburg became the what if the Virginia colony.
The capital
Eliza Lucas Pinckney was what
The first successful indigo crop
Tobacco indigo and rice were __________________________ crops
Labor intensive
Redemptioner
A person who sells their labor
Indentured servant
Unfree workers.
Most white settlers were what
Indentured servants
In ______ a Dutch slave trader brought the first African slaves to the colony.
1619
Triangle trade
A sea route that lets other countries trade
