ENGLISH COLONIES Flashcards
(20 cards)
Jamestown
An English settlement in Virginia founded in 1607
John Smith
A colonist and leader of Jamestown
Pocahontas
A Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe
Indentured servants
Colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys
Bacon’s Rebellion
An uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes
Toleration act of 1649
An act that made limiting the religious rights if Christians a crime
Oluadah Equiano
A former slave who wrote down hos experiences
Slave codes
Laws to control slaves
Authority
Power, right to rule
Factors
Causes
Why did many colonists in Jamestown starve?
They didnt know how to grow crops
What did the Powhatan Indians help the colonists in Jamestown learn to do?
Grow crops
In what year did Pocahontas die?
1617
Who did Pocahontas help unite?
The Powhatan and the colonists in Jamestown
What happened to Jamestown in 1676?
It got burnt
How did a former slave describe treatment of slaves?
They were tortured, murdered, and treated with barbarity
Who wrote about the brutal conditions he experienced as a slave?
Oluadah Equnio
What were he colonists that signed contracts to work on plantations and farms in exchange for the payment f their journey called?
Indentured servants
A group of former indentured servants led by a wealthy frontier farmer began an uprising called the…..
Bacons Rebellion
What was the thing that made restricting religious rights of Christians a crime called?
Toleration act of 1649
