| People in the South | Colonizing the South | Africans in Carolina | The House of Burgesses | Vocabulary |
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100Who was John Rolfe?
He exported tobacco to Europe.
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100What is Georgia?
The colony that James Oglethorpe founded
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100What is a banjo?
This is the musical instrument Africans introduced to the colonies.
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100Who are free, white men?
This person was allowed to vote.
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100What is a cash crop?
Something that is grown for profit.
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200Who was George Calvert?
King Charles gave the area of the Chesapeake Bay to this man.
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200What is Carolina?
This colony originally wanted to raise silkworms for profit.
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200What is immunity from malaria and yellow fever?
This was why Africans did NOT get sick.
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200What was Virginia?
This London Company provided money to start up this colony.
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200What is a plantation?
This is a large farm where one main crop is grown.
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300Who was Powhatan?
This Native American was chief of the Algonquians.
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300What is Georgia?
This colony allowed Native Americans to escape settlers in the 1600's.
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300What is not enough indentured servants?
The reason why slaves were shipped to the Americas.
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300What was Jamestown?
This is where the original capital of Virginia was located.
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300What is export?
To ship a product to another country to sell it there.
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400Who was King James I?
He would NOT have been surprised that smoking tobacco causes lung diseases.
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400What is Maryland?
The Toleration Act of 1649 allowed both Catholics and Protestants to settle and worship as they pleased.
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400What is also a slave?
You would be this if BOTH parents were enslaved in the 1700's.
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400What is legislature?
The Virginians set up their own ________ to make laws.
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400What is a staple crop?
The most important crop grown in an area.
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500Who was Captain John Smith?
This person brought the new work ethic and new rule - people who worked got food.
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500What is Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, and Georgia?
Name all FOUR southern colonies.
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500What are creating music, making baskets and gourd containers, fishing nets and fishing techniques, dugout canoes, cattle herding, and rice growing.
Name three important skills Africans helped Carolina to survive.
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500What is veto?
The governor has the power to ______ laws passed by the legislature.
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500What is a buffer zone?
An area of safety between people in a conflict.
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