Exploration and the Colonial Era: Southern Colonial Region
The chart below includes definitions of eleven core vocabulary terms from the textbook. Please complete the column in your own words /example with an example from your readings/knowledge of the time period.
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Social
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Terms
Roanoke
Jamestown
Joint-Stock
Company
“Starving
Time”
Powhatan
Definition
First location of British attempt to colonize in the
Americas; off the coast in the Outer Banks of North
Carolina
In Your Own Words (summarizing meaning, paraphrasing, using synonyms, etc.)
The first attempt to colonize in the
Americas was a poor choice because the island of Roanoke is only accessible by dangerous waters.
Location of first successful British colony in the Americas; southern
Virginia on James River.
Company that allowed several investors to pool their resources in support of a colony, in hopes that they would gain a profit.
A period of hardship when colonists struggle to survive in Jamestown.
Jamestown was supported by people looking to make money instead of a king and country looking to advance its empire.
First Anglo-
Powhatan
War
Indentured
Servants
Headright
System
Indian tribe in the region surrounding the James
River and Chesapeake
Bay region.
Lord De la Warr arrived with orders from the Virginia
Company to declare the war 1614.
People who exchanged their services for payment of passage to the
Americas – usually 4-7 years servitude.
System in which plantation owners received land in exchange for every person they paid to bring to the colony.
In order to get more people to come to the colonies, the government used land (40 acres) to entice those with money to bring them over.
Example (Further explanation, drawing displaying meaning, etc.)
House of
Burgesses
Representative form of government in Virginia.
Large farms based on the To make lots of money farmers used

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Tobacco
Plantations
Slaves
Bacon’s
Rebellion cash crop of tobacco, introduced from the
Caribbean.
Africans brought from
Africa and the Caribbean in order to be sold into bondage for use as workers. all of the land to plant one crop, tobacco, and then sell it.
Rebellion led by frontiersman against the government of Virginia.
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Chattels
Act of
Toleration
(1649)
Carolina
Charles
Town
Yamasees
Beginning in Virginia in 1662, statutes appeared that formally decreed the iron conditions of slavery for blacks. These earliest “slave codes” made blacks and their children the property or
“chattels” for life of their white masters.
was an act passed by the local representative assembly that guaranteed religious toleration to all
Christians who accepted the Trinity was created in 1670 after King Charles II granted to eight of his court favorites an expanse of land. These aristocrats wanted to grow foodstuffs to provision the sugar plantations in Barbados and to export non-
English products like wine, silk, and olive oil.
Carolina was like a son trying to make it on his own became the busiest seaport in the south.
Many high-spirited young men came over because they did not an inheritance from their parents.
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William and
Mary citizens of North
Carolina in one of several wars facing increased importation of slaves to Carolina.
After their defeat, nearly all Indian tribes in the colonies of the south were destroyed by 1720.
Founded in 1693,
William and Mary was
Virginia’s first college and the second in
America.