Chapter 2: The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial South

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Ch 2 Study Guide THE FIRST CENTURY OF SETTLEMENT IN THE COLONIAL SOUTH

PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS

1. Powhatan confederacy

2. mercantilism

3. The survival of the Virginia colony

4. The early Virginia colony

5. The “headright” in Tidewater Virginia & Maryland

6. Immigrants to Virginia in the 1620s

7. Virginia made a royal colony in 1624

8. The fall in the tobacco boom in the 1630s and 1640s

9. Maryland & religious toleration

10. Political unrest in the Chesapeake

11. English prosperity & King Charles II ‘snavigation acts

12. British Navigation Acts & mercantilism

13. Women & the early colonial Chesapeake colonies

14. The Navigation Acts &English merchants

15. Results of the English Civil War of the mid1600s

16. The revolt led by Nathaniel Bacon

17. The growth of the Atlantic slave trade between the mid-1500s and the late 1800s

18. Chesapeake political society by the end of the 1600s

19. English mainland colonies of North America & slaves from Africa

20. Chesapeake planters: indentured servants or slaves?

21. The Chesapeake gentry sought respect and independence

22. The society of the Chesapeake colonies & New York: violence versus stability

23. English settlements in the West Indies

24. The most lucrative New World product by the later 1600s

25. Sugar consumption & conferred status versus sugarproduction

26. Europeans first knowledge of sugar

27. Ciet in Europe and America

28. South Carolina versus the Chesapeake

29. The early instability of South Carolina society

30. Colony founded as a military buffer & a philanthropic enterprise

31. Southern English colonies by about 1700

32. Spanish colonies and missions

COMPLETION

  1. [ ] was the king of England who chartered the company that founded the first permanent English colony in North America.
  2. In 1617 John Rolfe established a pattern for southern colonies when he introduced [ ].
  3. In 1619, the Virginia Colony began the tradition of selfgovernment in America by authorizing [ ].
  4. The king who was restored to the throne after the Civil War was [ ].
  5. The collective name for parliamentary legislation designed according to mercantilist theory for the purpose of controlling colonial trade was [ ].
  6. The phase of the enslavement process after slaves had been procured along the African coast and before they were sold in the Americas involved a long sea voyage across the Atlantic known as [ ].
  7. The [ ]—basically the leading plantation owners—were the political and economic elite of the Chesapeake colonies by the late 1600s.
  8. The original settlers of South Carolina came from [ ].
  9. The last of the original 13 English North American colonies to be founded was [ ].
  10. Unlike the English, the Spanish projected a place in their colonies for [ ].

IDENTIFICATION

Students should be able to describe the following key terms, concepts, individuals, and places, and explain their significance:

Terms and Concepts

Powhatan Confederacy / Mercantilism
Headrights / indentured servant
English Civil War / Navigation Acts
Restoration / Royal African Company
proprietary government / quitrents
House of Burgesses / Coode’s Rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion / Virginia Company of London
Middle Passage / Yamasee War
Great Pueblo Revolt / Mission

Individuals and Places

Captain John Smith / John Rolfe
Calvert family / Oliver Cromwell
James I / Charles I
Charles II / William Berkeley
General James Oglethorpe / St. Augustine

MAP IDENTIFICATIONS

Students have been given the following map exercise: On the map on the following page, label or shade in the following places. In a sentence, note their significance to the chapter.

  1. Chesapeake Bay
  2. the Tidewater
  3. the Piedmont
  4. territory encompassed by the Powhatan Confederacy
  5. Jamestown


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