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Southern Colonies
Southern Colony
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who made the policy: If you don't work you don't eat" | John Smith |
| What was the main crop that help Virginia (Jamestown )survive? | tobacco |
| Who discovered tobacco as a great cash crop? | John Rolfe |
| What other way dd the people of Virginia get others to come? | promised them 50 acres of land (headright system) |
| Name the 5 Southern colonies | Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia |
| What colony wanted to outlaw slavery....but later it was rejected | Georgia |
| Big farms in the southern colonies where one crop was grown were called: | plantations |
| After making the Native Americans work in the fields, who did the settlers next get to work in the tobacco fields? | indentured servants |
| In the triangular trade what did the American colonies trade with Europe? | tobacco, indigo, rice |
| In the triangular trade what did the Europeans trade with Africa? | manufactured goods, rum, olives |
| In the triangular trade what did Africa trade to the colonies? | slaves |
| How help found Georgia | James Oglethorpe |
| Who could vote and be a member of the House of Burgesses | free, landowning, white men |
| What is a cash crop | crop that makes money....like tobacco |
| Virginia set up their own what to make laws? | legislature |
| Tobacco was exported. What is exported mean? | to send out to another place/country |
| What are some things the African people taught the colonists? | basket weaving, dugout canoes, fish nets, cattle herding, fishing, bowl making |