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Study Cards Of The Colony Grows
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Colonial leaders tried to lure more people to come to Virginia by offering them 50 acres of land for every person they paid passage for. How did this offer success? | This offer succeeded because of tobacco farming lured many new settlers to come. |
| Many were INDENTURED SERVANTS. These people would have their passage to Virginia paid for, and would be clothed, sheltered, and fed. What did they get in exchange? | They agreed to work for the person paying anywhere from 3-7 years. |
| The work of these indentured servants was brutally hard, they were mistreated and often beaten. How was this bad? | Between this and diseases, many never lived to see the end of their servitude. |
| Tobacco was very profitable, but tobacco wears out the soil in about 7 years. This made it necessary for new land to be bought, cleared and planted frequently. What did this work require? | This work required many workers! |
| The need for workers was growing, but the number of indentured servants coming over was lessening, and the one here for a while were beginning to earn their freedom. What took their place? | To take their place, planters started using African enslaved people. |
| The first documented African enslaved people arrived in Virginia in 1619. How did the planters treat them at first? | The planters were not sure how to treat them at first, so they were initially treated almost like indentured servants and they could earn their freedom after a set period of work. Some freed slaves even were given or purchased their own land. |
| Slavery grew slowly at first because the price of purchasing an enslaved person was very high. But what happened as the price of enslaved people fell, and the wealthy planters were earning more money? | What happened was the practice of slavery also grew. |
| What happened when slavery became legal? | Enslaved people lost any of the informal rights they had in the beginning of the practice in the colony. |
| As slavery grew, why did enslaved people get treated very harshly by their owners? | Because this was to "make them work harder" and to make them afraid to rise up against the white population, whom they greatly outnumbered in many areas! |
| Large plantations were like small villages and had to make almost all the goods they needed for themselves (clothes, shoes, barrels, candles, etc.). What did the large wealthy planters have? | They had gigantic plantations along the rivers and would trade tobacco for luxury goods from England with British ships that sailed up them. The children were well educated. |
| By contrast, small farmers had to sell their tobacco for money. This could make their fortunes uncertain depending on the current price of tobacco. What could they afford? | They could afford few servants/enslaved people so the family did much of the work on the farm. There was little time for education for children. Many small farmers ended up forced to sell their land to large wealthy planters. |
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