CH 3-1 Outline
American Colonies
Upchurch
Jamestown
A. The Settlement
1. When and where was it settled________________________________
2. Problems facing the colonists
a. ___________________________________
b. ___________________________________
c. ____________________________________
3. John Smith- who was he, and what did he do for the colony?
_______________________________________________________________________________
4. Powhatan Confederacy- relationship with the colonists?
_________________________________________________________________________________
5. John Rolfe-what did he do significant for Jamestown?
_________________________________________________________________________________
5. Pocahontas- who was she?__________________________________________
6. What happened in 1624?___________________________________________
B. Daily Life in Virginia
1. Most people had plantations and farmed what cash crop? _______
2. Headright system- earned land if paid own way, and earned more land
for each person they brought to Virginia
3. Indentured servants—
_______________________________________________________
4. 2 factors that led to increase in slavery by mid 1600’s
a. ___________________
b. ___________________
5. Bacon’s Rebellion
a. What was it about? And who led it? And what did they do to
Jamestown?__________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Other Southern Colonies
A. Why did English Catholics come to America_____________________________
B. Maryland
1. Why was the colony started? _____________________________________
2. Proprietary colony—____________________________________________
CH 3-1 Outline
American Colonies
Upchurch
3. How did this colonies start compare to
Jamestown?_______________________________________________________
4. What was the significance of the Toleration Act of 1649 to the American
colonies?__________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
C. Carolinas and Georgia
1. North and South Carolina- did these colonies depend on slavery for labor on the
plantations? What was the population of slaves vs
settlers?_______________________________________
2. What did James Oglethorpe hope the colony of Georgia would be? Did it work
out this
way?_____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Economies of Southern Colonies
A. Agriculture economies
B. Exported ________________, and ____________
C. Farms did well in the south because
a. _______________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________
D. Three Cash crops of Southern Colonies
a. ____________________________________
b. ____________________________________
c. ____________________________________
E. Slavery was needed to grow cash crops
a. Treatment of slaves? ___________________
b. Slave codes? __________________________
c. 2 examples of Slave Code laws
i. _______________________________________________
ii. _______________________________________________