Do Now  Agenda:
Chapter 3 Review
Questions
Intro to AP Essays
Practice:
Dissecting the
Question
Homework:
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Thursday-Sunday: Read, take Cornell Notes, and define key terms for Chapter 4.
Monday: Read and complete analysis worksheet for “A Model of Christian Charity”.
Comprehension and Analysis
Tobacco dominated European settlement in the
seventeenth-century Chesapeake. How did
tobacco agriculture shape the region’s
development? In your answer, be sure to
address the demographic and geographic
features of the colony.
Comprehension and Analysis
Why had slave labor largely displaced
indentured servant labor by 1700 in
Chesapeake tobacco production?
Comprehension and Analysis
Bacon’s Rebellion highlighted significant tensions within
Chesapeake society. What provoked the rebellion, and
what did it accomplish? In your answer, be sure to
consider causes and results in the colonies and in
England.
Colonial
Regions
Three Types of Charters
1. Corporate Colony
• Run by a jointstock company
• Like a corporation
• Middle class
people pooled
their small savings
to start a business.
2. Royal Colony
• Directly under
the king’s rule
3. Proprietary
Colony
• Ruled by people
who were
granted
ownership by
the king
• The king thought
this would give
him almost total
control.
The Chesapeake Colonies
Virginia
Maryland
• Was given to George Calvert
(Lord Baltimore) as a reward.
= 1st proprietary colony
• Act of Toleration
– 1st law granting religious
freedom
– Only applied to Christians;
death to any who denied
divinity of Christ.
Virginia
Bacon’s Rebellion
• Sir Wm Berkeley (royal governor)
– favored wealthy planters
– Didn’t protect backwoods farmers
from Indian attacks
• Nathanial Bacon
• Protestant Revolt/Civil War
– Resented Catholic proprietor;
repealed Act of Toleration
2 Major Colonial Disputes in Virginia
1. CLASS DIFFERENCES (wealthy planters v.
poor farmers)
2. COLONIAL RESISTANCE TO ROYAL CONTROL
– Led the farmers in a rebellion.
– Volunteer army raided and
massacred Indian Villages
– Defeated the governor’s forces;
burned Jamestown
• Later brutally suppressed.
The Chesapeake Colonies:
Labor Shortages (tobacco industry)
Reasons for INITIAL slow growth:
• Unhealthy climate
• High death rate
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Disease
Indian attacks
Male-Female imbalance
40 million lbs exported annually
3 Solutions to Labor Shortage:
1. Indentured Servitude
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2.
Under the absolute rule of their master, who paid
for their passage, room, and board, for 4-7 years
After this, they gained their freedom, worked or
farmed.
Head right System
50 acres were given to:
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An immigrant who paid for his own passage
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A plantation owner who paid an immigrant’s
passage
3.
Slavery
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Bacon’s rebellion demonstrated need for a new
labor source—colonists increasingly turned
towards African slavery during the 17th century
Initially, African slaves had the same status as
indentured servants (not for life)
House of Burgesses: in 1660’s, enacted laws that
discriminated against blacks (treated as lifelong
slaves).
INTRO TO APUSH ESSAYS
Three total – 2 hours and 10 minutes of straight writing!
APUSH Essays
DBQ (Document Based Question)
• First essay
• 15 minute reading of docs & 45 minute writing
time
• Good news = much of the info you need to
answer is given to you in the documents
• Bad(ish) news = you need to understand all of the
docs, sort them into meaningful categories, & use
them to build your own original argument
• This is the kind of work that historians do
• Docs = unified thematically and prompt gives a
clue about how to look at them
• Docs = evidence
• You're going to want to use as many as possible
to support your argument