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Southern Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name the Southern colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carlina, Georgia |
| Which colony was given as a refuge for Catholics? | Maryland |
| Who was Maryland given to? | George and Cecilius Calvert Lords Baltimore |
| Who was Maryland named after? | Henrietta Marie Charles 1's queen |
| What was the first religious law passed in the colonies? | The Toleration Act of 1649 |
| Who would be granted religious freedom according to the Act of Toleration? | Those who believed in the Trinity |
| When was Maryland established? And by whom? | 1633 by Cecilius Calvert |
| What was Maryland's cash crop? | tobacco |
| What was the first colony established in Virginia? When? | Jamestown 1607 |
| Who made tobacco a cash crop in Virginia? | John Rolfe |
| 50 acres of land given in Virginia to those who paid their passage or worked their passage off | headrights |
| Led a rebellion in Jamestown that resulted in the burning of the city | Bacon |
| Occurred on March 22, 1622 | Good Friday Massacre |
| Native who led the Good Friday Masscre | Opechancanough |
| In 1624, James 1 made Virginia a ____________ colony. | royal |
| What town soon replaced Jamestown's importance? | Williamsburg |
| At the beginning of the Revolution Era,what percentage of the population were slaves? | 20% |
| What was the cash crop of North Carolina? | tobacco |
| How many proprietors did the king give the Carolinas to? | 8 |
| What proprietor paid lots of interest to the southern Carolinas? | Lord Ashley-Cooper |
| When was Charles Towne founded? Where? | 1670 Albemarle Point |
| Why did Charles Towne grow to be an important city in the colonies? | good harbor |
| Charles Towne was settled primarily by what groups of people? | Sots-Irish, French Huguenots, English |
| What two rivers converge to "make the Atlantic Ocean"? | Ashley River and the Cooper River |
| A group of colorful homes in historic Charleston | Rainbow Row |
| A system of large farms that developed in the southern colonies | plantation system |
| The plantation system depended on the ___________________. | labor of slaves |
| What was the first cash crop along the tidewater south? | rice |
| What was the second cash crop? | indigo |
| Who developed indigo? | Eliza Lucas |
| What was indigo? | a blue dye |
| What crop was a staple in the South? | corn |
| Give some uses for corn. | Johnny cakes, grits, hominy, flour, |
| Who was the proprietor of the Georgia colony? | James Oglethorpe |
| What two purposes did this colony serve? | refuge for those in debtors prison buffer between the Creeks and Spanish and the English colonies |
| The predominant education system for plantations included_________. Why? | tutors the distances were too long |
| Where did most Southern boys go to university? | England |
| What was the "Grand Tour"? | year long tour of Europe by wealthy sons of South aristocracy |
| Where was the frontier located? | western edge of colonies, along the Appalachian Mountains |
| What was the frontier often called? | back country |
| What type of farming was done on the frontier? | subsistence |
| On what road did one travel to the back country? | The Wilderness Road |
| What are trenchers? | wooden plates |
| What are noggins? | wooden bowls/cups |
| What was the spring house? | house with cold water running through it to keep food cold? |
| How did those on the frontier preserve their meat? | smoke and salt |
| What three sweets were available to those on the frontier? | molasses, honey, maple syrup |
| How was lye soap made? | boiling ashes and fat |
| What berries were used to make fragrant candles? | bayberries |
| List some activities that would be considered fun by those living on the frontier? | house or barn raising corn husking quilting bee |
| What farm animals tended to be the ones easy to care for on the frontier? | hogs |
| Who ruled a colony? | governor |
| Who held "the power of the purse"? | legislature |
| What was the local army called? | militia |
| Who married people and handled legal matters? | justice of the peace |
| a person who contracts to learn a trade | apprentice |
| Who might act as a druggist and a doctor in the early colonies? | apothecary |
| What was a barrel-maker called? | cooper |
| Who was the most famous colonial silversmith? | Paul Revere |
| If you were poor, you might use ______instead of silver. | pewter |
| What does "tailor" mean? | the art of cutting |
| Who might sell you soap and give you a shave? | wig maker |
| Who was the best known clock maker in the colonies? | Simon Willard |
| What is a "limner"? | a painter |
| What was the style of colonial painters? | Primitive American |
| What three things did they paint? | portraits, landscapes, and historical scences? |
| Name five colonial painters? | Coply, West, Trumbull, Peale, Stuart |
| Which class? merchants, plantation owners, clergy | Upper |
| Which class? | 15 hour days no hope of freedom |
| A person who works a given number of years for their passage? | indentured servant |
| Which class? | shopkeepers, farmers, craftsmen |
| Those coming from Europe looking for someone to pay passage | redemptioners |
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