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Chapter 3 Colonies
The Southern Colonies 3.1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America? | Jamestown |
| Daughter of Powhatan Leader, and married John Rolfe. | Pocahontas |
| English colonist to the Americas who helped found the Jamestown Colony and encouraged settlers to work harder. | John Smith |
| People who signed a contract to work four to seven years for those who paid their journey to America. | Indentured Servants |
| An attack led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676 against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia. | Bacon's Rebellion |
| A Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime. It was the first law that guaranteed religious freedom. | Toleration Act of 1649 |
| A former slave who recorded his brutal experiences as a slave. | Olaudah Equiano |
| Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves. | Slave Codes |
| Important to the economies of the Southern Colonies | Farming and Slavery |
| Reasons for founding other southern colonies, including Maryland, Georgia, and the Carolinas. | Religous Freedom and Economic Opportunities. |
| Name of the joint-stock company who were investors in the early settlement of Jamestown. | The London Company |
| The Jamestown Colonists received help from this powerful Native American group. | The Powhatan Confederacy |
| Many Native Americans died from this. | Diseases brought over by the Europeans. |