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Settlement of the US
Unit 1 SS Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the Native Americans help the first colonists survive? | by teaching them to grow crops and learn the land. |
| Why did the relationship change between the colonists and the Native Americans? | They disagreed over who owned the land. |
| What were Native Americans forced to do? | Move west to avoid conflict. |
| What happened to the health of Native Americans when the settlers came? | Many Native Americans got sick and died from new diseases that settlers brought from Europe. |
| What do we call the exchange of goods from the old world to the new world? | The Columbian Exchange |
| Where were the 13 colonies located? | Along the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Why were the 13 colonies able to be self-governing? | Because they were founded by England. |
| Economy of New England Colonies | fishing, lumber, and ship building. |
| Economy of Southern Colonies | farming cash crops like cotton, tobacco, and rice |
| How did the Lords Proprietors come to power in SC? | because they were given land in the Southern Colonies by the King of England in repayment of a debt |
| How did the Lords Proprietors LOSE power in SC | Lords Proprietors lost power because they could not protect the colonies from attacks from Native Americans. |
| What were plantations? | The cash crops grown in the Southern Colonies were grown on large farms, owned by wealthy men, called plantations. |
| Where did the idea of the plantation system come from? | Barbados |
| Why were slaves brought to the Southern colonies? | Plantation owners needed help with the farming so slaves were brought to SC. The plantation system depended on slave labor. African slaves knew how to grow different crops like rice. |
| Describe the slave conditions in the south. | They responded to the poor conditions of plantation life by faking illnesses, breaking tools, and working slowly. Slaves were forced to work for no pay and had to work for their entire lives. |
| What was the journey called that brought slaves to America? | Middle Passage |
| Imports | Goods coming IN to a country |
| Exports | Goods going OUT of a country |
| What was the trade called that went between Europe, Africa and the Americas? | Triangular Trade |
| How were slaves and indentured servants similar? | Both were used for cheap labor |
| How were slaves and indentured servants different? | Slaves were kidnapped from their homes in West Africa and forced to travel to America. Indentured servants were poor English workers. |
| Indentured Servants | Wealthy plantation owners paid for their trip to the colonies. In exchange, indentured servants worked for them for a number of year |
| Middle Passage Conditions | This was a very dangerous trip. Many slaves were cramped to transport many slaves at a time. They were often housed below deck where it was crowded, unsanitary and dark. They didn't have much food. |
| Gullah Culture | The Gullah culture was created by the blending together of the cultures of many African slaves on SC plantations |
| Huguenots | Huguenots were a group of Protestants from France. They settled in SC to escape religious persecution They started the South Carolina Society - a charitable organization that built orphanages and schools. |
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