Virginia Colonies

Question 1

Where did the Protestant Reformation begin?

Answer 1

Northern Europe-V

Question 2

Why didn’t England make stronger attempts to colonize the New World before the late sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries?

Answer 2

English attention was turned to internal struggles and the encroaching Catholic menace to Scotland and Ireland.-V

Question 3

What was the most lucrative product of the Chesapeake colonies?

Answer 3

tobacco-V

Question 4

What was the primary cause of Bacon’s Rebellion?

Answer 4

former indentured servants wanted more opportunities to expand their territory
or
Jamestown politicians were jockeying for power-V

Question 5

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 5

the transatlantic journey that enslaved Africans made to America-V

Question 6

Virginia
Massachusetts’s
Rhode Island

Answer 6

South
North
North
-V

Question 7

What was significant in the 1300-1400 in Europe

Answer 7

Black Plague,1/3 of Europe died-V

Question 8

1500’s- Population growth, Price Revolution

Answer 8

Low wages, high prices-V

Question 9

Enclosure movement

Answer 9

Land owners didn’t want renter so they enclosed their fields, and wanted sheep-V

Question 10

John Smith

Answer 10

Founder of Jamestown, where many pilgrims died-V

Question 11

William Boyd

Answer 11

Primogeniture ( firstborn child)-V

Question 12

Background-Seconds sons who didn’t get anything-didn’t know how to work
Criminals-either go to America or go to prison-

Answer 12

V

Question 13

Virginias Problems

Answer 13

Background
Ignorance
Too debilitated by hunger and disease
Communal system & attitudes towards work
Spanish Myths-V

Question 14

Ignorance

Answer 14

didn’t how to farm
built next to the water, to protect themselves from Indians-V

Question 15

Too debilitated by hunger and diesease

Answer 15

'’Starving Time’‘-Canabilism, killed wife and ate her-V

Question 16

Communal system & attitude towards work

Answer 16

Communal system did not work, (equal pay despite work)
Pasture farmer did not know how to worker-from England
Guilds-medieval unions, must do what father did(trade)-V

Question 17

Spanish Myths

Answer 17

Cortez and Pazzaro ‘’ Conquistadors’’, Native Americans believed they were Gods, and were given gold. The pilgrims believed the same-V

Question 18

Starving Time

Answer 18

John Smith Recounts the Early History of Jamestown ,1609-V

Question 19

Packed Densely, Like Herring

Answer 19

Gottlieb Mittelberger Warns
His Countryman of the Perils of Emigration, 1750-V

Question 20

We Unfortunate English People Suffer Here

Answer 20

An English Servant Writes Home by Elizabeth Sprigs, 1756-V

Question 21

A Letter from an Indentured Servant in Virginia

Answer 21

Richard Frethorne, 1623-V

Question 22

Virginia Slave Laws

Answer 22

Virginia Slave Law: Prohibition Against Arms
Virginia Slave Law: A Slave Woman’s Offspring
Virginia Slave Law: Killing a Slave
Virginia Slave Law: Slaves are Real Estate-V

Question 23

Slaves
Move
Capitalism
Servants
tobacco
Women

Answer 23

V

Question 24

Tobacco

Answer 24

Demand was high and used African to work it
1640 African lost their right
English King did not like tobacco-V

Question 25

Indentured Servants

Answer 25

-worked 4-7 years in exchange for passage
-recuitment
-crossing/dangers
-the contract
-seasoning
-sexual restraint
-punishment for running away-V

Question 26

Recruitment

Answer 26

Spirit ‘‘recruiting’‘-V

Question 27

Crossing/dangers

Answer 27

Wind, sickness, lack of food, pirates, mutiny, shipwreck, rations-V

Question 28

The contract

Answer 28

'’pest house’’ if look sick/weak-V

Question 29

Seasoning

Answer 29

Term used if lasted 1 year in the conditions
Lifespan
VA-40
NE-80(Cold killed germs)
England-60-V

Question 30

Sexual Restraint

Answer 30

Not suppose to get married if girl gets pregnant because girl is accused of fornication, and bastardy in which the child is born out of wedlock. Masters can add 1-3 years of service. To change things, they ask the girl whose the father and if is the master, he is accused with adultery, and they move the girl to another master. If a white women has a mixed baby from a black man, women gets 7 years added plus whipping. Many move to North Carolina.-V

Question 31

Punishment for running away

Answer 31

For everyday, 1 day=pay 10 days
Anne ran away 133 days, paid 1,330 days
South Carolina- Ran away for 1 day, pay 1 year-V

Question 32

Headright system

Answer 32

Settlers received 50 acres of land when arrived, per servant-V

Question 33

Anthony Johnson

Answer 33

Free black man that had a small estate, and had a white worker, 1640-V

Question 34

1st example of slavery

Answer 34

1640- 3 servants escaped, however the black punishment was to serve life for his life-V

Question 35

1640-Slavery shifted from non-Christian to non-white

Answer 35

-V

Question 36

1641-Massachusetts recognized slavery as a legal institution( a north colony)

Answer 36

V

Question 37

1662-If a child bon from a enslaved mother, baby is now slave for life

Answer 37

-V

Question 38

Shortage of women

Answer 38

Arrival
Marriage and child bearing
Too unstable to be patriarchal-V

Question 39

Arrival-1620- 140 free women, 1woman per 10 men
women have more right, thrive when economy/government unstable

Answer 39

-V

Question 40

Marriage/Child bearing

Answer 40

Most came as indentured servants, lots of step/half kids-V

Question 41

Too unstable to be patriachal

Answer 41

-women were not submissive ‘‘Do not obey the man’’
-VA, women inherit when she marries. They would marry sick man, and inherit everything and marry another man
‘‘Bawdy’’ women had big mouth in VA, put a docking stool’’ in every county for women with big mouth. Dunked in a chair with sewer water-V