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Unit 2 Southern Col
Terms specific to Southern Colonies
Term | Definition |
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1607 | the year in which the first English colony in America was founded at Jamestown, Virginia (VA) |
Jamestown, Virginia (VA) | first permanent colony in North America, settled in 1607 by investors of the Virginia Company of London (capital of England) |
John Smith | leader of the Jamestown Colony, famous for saying, "He that does not work, shall not eat." |
House of Burgesses | colonial government in Virginia that allowed colonist to choose representatives to speak for them |
James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia colony, created Georgia as a refuge (safe place) for debtors (people who own money) and as a "buffer zone" (protection) from the Spanish in Florida |
Indigo | plantation crop whose flowers were used to make a deep blue dye |
Slavery | using humans to do labor without pay |
Toleration Act of 1649 | Maryland's law that was the first to allow religious toleration, this one protected the religious practices of Catholics |
Plantation | a large farm that grows a single crop to sell, used slaves as a source of labor |
"Starving Time" | period when the Jamestown colony was first established and did not have enough food for all the colonist and disease combined with hunger killed most of them |