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| What were some of the advantages about the Jamestown location? |
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| located up the river & hidden from ocean attacks; easy escape route if attacked; easy to transport goods to and from England using the river |
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| What were some of the disadvantages about the Jamestown location? |
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| land was swampy; mosquitoes; no fresh water; colonists only interested in finding gold so homes were built poorly |
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| What kind of people settled in Jamestown? |
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| English settlers; gentlemen; adventurers; Captain John Smith; indentured servants |
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| Why did they want to settle Jamestown? |
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| to find gold; to claim land; so the Virginia Company could make money |
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| What are some of the hardships settlers faced? |
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| mosquitoes; dirty drinking water; swampy land and disease, HUNGER, bad weather |
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| Why was Jamestown eventually successful? |
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| tobacco sales ; indentured servants and slaves; John Rolfe |
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| Why was slavery so important in the Southern Colonies? |
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| workers needed on plantations to make money for colonists; fewer indentured servants; colonists had hard time working in warm weather; Southern crops required a lot of work (sugar, tobacco, cotton) |
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| a leader of Jamestown who made everyone work in order to eat |
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| daughter of Powhatan who believed to have saved John Smith's life and eventually married John Rolfe, the tobacco planter. |
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| cultivated a high grade of tobacco, it become a huge cash crop! Made Jamestown successful |
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| Leader of the Native Americans who were threatened by the Jamestown settlement, he was the chief of many tribes. |
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| people whose passage from England was paid for by their masters; agreed to work for 5 - 7 years in exchange for freedom and land |
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| crops such as tobacco and cotton; selling them provided farmers with cash, it made Jamestown successful! |
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| goods raised in colonies and shipped to OTHER countries |
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| someone who was forced to work without getting paid for his or her services, worked until death, suffered greatly :( |
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| the horrible journey across the ocean from Africa to America. The conditions on the ships were bad and slaves were chained down so they would not jump overboard. |
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| Name of the Company that sent workers over to Virginia |
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| Define the word Plantation |
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| How did slave owner punish their slaves? |
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| Why were fewer indentured servants coming over from England? |
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| Life in England got better, plus slaves were cheaper labor. |
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