Virginia/Georgia

Question 1

What were the reasons for settlement in Georgia?

Answer 1

Poor people to stay out of prison
Freedom
New lives

Question 2

Government of Georgia?

Answer 2

Self governing

Question 3

Economy of Georgia?

Answer 3

Farming (plantations and independent farms) trade, skilled labor

Question 4

Religion in Georgia

Answer 4

Various faiths

Question 5

Religion in Virginia

Answer 5

Church of England

Question 6

Economy of Virginia

Answer 6

Farming(plantations and small independent farms)

Question 7

Government of Virginia

Answer 7

Self governing with elected assembly

Question 8

What was the elected assembly of Virginia called?

Answer 8

The house of burgesses

Question 9

What was the climate and geography of New England?

Answer 9

Rocky, thin soil
Long cold winters
Jagged coastlines
Richest fishing grounds in the world

Question 10

New England economy?

Answer 10

Small subsistence farmers, shipbuilders, lumber men, fur traders, fishing whaling and merchants

Question 11

Where did most families live in New England

Answer 11

On small farms

Question 12

In New England colonies, geography led to ___ being means of income besides ___

Answer 12

Forests
Farming

Question 13

Who were the founders of Virginia?

Answer 13

Sir Walter Raleigh and the Virginia Company

Question 14

Settlers of Virginia?

Answer 14

English landowners, laborers, people seeking profit

Question 15

Economy of Virginia?

Answer 15

Farming(plantations and small independent farms)

Question 16

What did the descendants of the early Jamestown settlers become?

Answer 16

Wealthy landowners and important people in Virginia

Question 17

What was the economy of Virginia based on and what was the problem?

Answer 17

Tobacco
Needed vast areas of land
Large number of laborers

Question 18

Who did the planters try to enslave at first and what happened?

Answer 18

Local Native American tribes but they died of disease they caught from the English or escaped

Question 19

Who were the second group of people the tobacco planters tried?
What did they get in return (experience-wise)

Answer 19

Poverty stricken from England to be indentured servants for 5 to 7 years in return for a free passage to Virginia.

Question 20

What were the indentured servants given at the end of their 5 to 7 year service?

Answer 20

Freedom along with a small plot of land, some clothing, tools, and seeds

Question 21

Explain what happened with the first Africans brought to Virginia.

Answer 21

They were brought as indentured servants and had the same rights and freedoms as white servants.

Question 22

Why did planters start enslaving Africans and their descendants?

Answer 22

Fewer Europeans wanted to work on plantations, it was quicker and cheaper

Question 23

What happened with the term of enslavement for Africans

Answer 23

It never ended and continued for generations and was a major part of the economic developments of the colonies and later the USA

Question 24

What was the assembly the Virginians elected called and what did it pass

Answer 24

The house of burgesses and passed a law that enslaved Africans workers for life

Question 25

By 1700, more than ___ of Virginias population were enslaved. Colonists in Virginia came to view slavery as…

Answer 25

1/4 Essential to the colony’s economic success

Question 26

Why was the Georgia, the last colony, established? Who started it as a business plan?

Answer 26

A group of Englishmen whose business plan was to help poor people in England stay out of debtors prison

Question 27

Who inspired wealthy Englishmen to establish a colony for this reason (Georgia)

Answer 27

James Oglethorpe

Question 28

Why did King George like James Oglethorpe plan for the poor?

Answer 28

It would keep Spanish from moving north out of Florida and Georgia would stand between Spanish Florida and the rest of the British colonies to the north

Question 29

What actually happened with the settlers in Georgia?

Answer 29

There weren’t many poor people who wanted to start new lives so the colonists who went with Olgethorpe to Georgia were adventures and people seeking religious freedom

Question 30

Why was life difficult in Georgia

Answer 30

Spaniards kept attacking bc they wanted Georgia and Georgians fought them off without help from ab rithis colonies

Question 31

Olgelthorpe had ___ ideas on how the colonists should live What were they

Answer 31

Specific and strict He wanted the colony to be a perfect society and establishidhed laws against alcohol and slavery and wanted the settlers to live on farms

Question 32

After ___ years of governing, Olgethorpe returned to England What did the people of Georgia do then?

Answer 32

12 years They elected an assembly and did the opposite of what Olgethorpe made laws about

Question 33

What was special about the house of burgesses?

Answer 33

It was the first democratically elected council in Northern America

Question 34

12 years after the establishment of Georgia, James Olgethorpe was ___ by the people.

Answer 34

Overthrown