CH 2 Part 2 RQs
1 p35 & p36 - 2 Golden Box Quotes and a Drawing –
- What crop is grown most often on these West Indian/Caribbean Islands on large plantations?
- What is the primary labor source for the plantations?
- What can you infer about the conditions for the laborers on these plantations based on the drawing and two Golden Box quotes?
- What power/authority does the word “code” infer?
2 p36 Photo of Coins –
- What is the symbol that appears on the coins for the “Lords Proprietors” and the colony of Carolina?
3 p37 Chart-
- Title?
- List the 5 Southern Colonies and their date of founding?
4 p38 Map-
-Title?
- Name the one city and date given for each of the Carolina’s and Georgia shown on the map (excluding Roanoke) ?
5 pp40-41 Golden pages –
Title?
Map p. 40 – Most of the Iroquois lands are entirely in which modern state?
Photo p. 41 – What were their living quarters called?
- Who were the two (2) founders of the I. C.?
- Would the Iroquois be considered a Patriarchal or Matriarchal society?
- Which tribe from the Carolina’s becomes the 6th member of the Confederacy?
- During the American Revolutionary War—on which side do most of the I.C. fight on?
- Name the Spiritual Leader who in 1799 leads a renaissance of the I.C. that happens to focus on a return to a more traditional and honorable lifestyle?
Reading Questions:
The West Indies: Way station to mainland America
6 Due to Spain’s weaknesses beginning in the 17th century… England (and others) begin to take various Caribbean Islands from the Spanish… The Big Prize captured and taken by Great Britain in 1655 was which Island?
7 Which crop is the foundation of the West Indian/Caribbean Economy?
8 What is the difference between growing tobacco and growing the above mentioned crop?
Poor Man’s Crop?
Rich Man’s Crop?
9 How many African Slaves are imported by the “Sugar Lords” to the Caribbean to work their plantations between 1640 and 1710?
10 What was the ratio in population between Africans and Whites by 1700 in the English West Indies?
p.35-36
11. What was the purpose the “codes” created by English authorities in the West Indies AND Which is the most famous created in 1661 and brought to the Carolina colony in 1670, which formally adopts in 1691?
12 From where do the Sugar Islands import food and to where do many migrate after 1670?
13 The Caribbean Islands were a ______for the Slave System that comes to English North America.
Colonizing the Carolinas (pp. 36 -38)
14 What occurs in England beginning in the 1640s? ---Who takes over?--- and in 1660 Charles the II takes over beginning the RESTORATION PERIOD.
15 5 COLONIES (GENERALLY) ARE CREATED DURING THE “RESTORATION PERIOD” [1653 -1688]
Name them?
16 Carolina is enormous, initially, with its East – West boundaries being the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans--- How many people were given this giant land grant AND what was the group called?
17 What were the two (2) main initial purposes of the Carolina colony?
18 From which Island do many of the early settlers of the Carolinas migrate from?
19 What unique type of Slave trading begins in the Carolina colony—One RI town has 200?
20 What becomes the principal export crop of the Carolina colony?
(p38)
21 Why are Africans used as the primary labor force on the plantations of South Carolina (a medical condition) AND by 1710 How does this affect the population of the colony with regards to the African population?
22 Name the busiest Seaport City in the South which also happens to be one of the two (2), along with Newport, Rhode Island, main ports in the Slave Trading Industry in North America?
The Emergence of North Carolina
23 From where do NC’s original settlers come AND how are they described (2 ways)?
24 “Squatters?” (define)
25 What two (2) distinctive traits are mentioned about North Carolinians?
26 Due to a strong notion of “resistance to authority” NC separated from SC in what year?
27 NC shares with RI distinctions among the original 13 colonies---what are the Three (3)?
p.39
28 Virtually all of WHAT had been utterly devastated by the 1720s in Carolinas?
29 What three (3) interior tribes are mentioned as lasting much longer and being more powerful due to them primarily living in the “middle ground” in the interior?
Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
30 Georgia was created as a “Buffer” from what threat(s)?
31 How many years after Virginia is Georgia founded?
32 What does Georgia receive from the British Government that NONE of the other 13 Colonies receive?
33 Georgia had another purpose—founded by Philanthropists like James Oglethorpe---it had a purpose as being a haven for ______?
34 From 1733 until 1750 what is banned in Georgia, unique for sure due to its later prominence in this system?
35 Savannah and Georgia had some religious tolerance allowing all Christians except ______.
*****HUGE****for essays****similarities in ALL SOUTHERN/PLANTATION COLONIES*****
36 NAME THE 5 SOUTHERN COLONIES & UNDERLINE THE TWO (2) –NC is sometimes included…(3) CHESAPEAKE COLONIES?
37 LIST THE SEVEN (AT LEAST) SIMILARITIES OF THE SOUTHERN COLONIES?
38 IN 1671, THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA ---SAID WHAT ABOUT EDUCATION AND THE PRESS?