2.3 Objectives, Key Words, and Questions – England’s Southern Colonies

Objectives

Describe how Jamestown was settled, why the colony struggled, and how it survived.

Explain the relationship of Indians and settlers in the Southern Colonies.

Discuss the settlement of Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia.

Key Words, People, and Vocab

charter______

joint-stock company______

Powhatan______

John Smith______

House of Burgesses______

royal colony______

proprietary colony______

Bacon’s Rebellion______

Lord Baltimore______

James Oglethorpe______

Note-Taking

Use a flowchart to list the important events in the founding of the Southern Colonies.

Focus Questions

WHAT

  1. What were the characteristics of the government and economy in the Southern Colonies?
  2. What would be the benefit of a joint-stock company?
  3. What is the significance of Roanoke?
  4. What challenges did the Jamestown settles overcome to survive?
  5. What does the change in population of Virginia Algonquins from 1607 to 1670 say about the effect that English colonization had on Native Americans?
  6. What evidence is there that the Jamestown colonists were prepared to trade with the Indians?
  7. What colonies had England established in America by 1732?
  8. What form of conflict in England also appeared in the Maryland colony?
  9. What were the causes of Bacon’s Rebellion?
  10. What combination of geographic and economic circumstances allowed Jamestown to survive?

WHY

  1. Why might Pocahontas’s marriage to John Rolfe have been seen as a way to end the war?
  2. Why was the Chesapeake Bay area a promising place for settlement?
  3. Why did the Virginia Company continue to transport people to Jamestown from 1607-1622?
  4. Do you think Jamestown would have survived without John Smith’s leadership? Why or why not?
  5. Why do you think James Olgethorpe instituted such rigid rules for settlers in Georgia?
  6. Why did Lord Baltimore establish Maryland?
  7. Why do you think early settlements in the Americas were founded on or near bodies of water?

HOW

  1. How might the English colonists have justified their appropriation of land?
  2. How did Powhatan deal with the English colonists?
  3. How did tobacco save Virginia?
  4. How did the government of Virginia differ from the government of Spanish and French colonies?
  5. How did the House of Burgesses distinguish the English colony of Virginia from Spanish and French colonies in the Americas?
  6. How did colonists’ attitudes towards Native Americans lead to Bacon’s Rebellion?