Exam 3: Colonization and Conflict in the South 1600-1750

Compare and contrast the Spanish treatment of native peoples in the Southwest with relations between Indians and English settlers in the colonial American Southeast.

Why did Georgia's idealistic founders fail in their plan to create a small farmer's utopia?

What was the most lucrative New World product by the later 1600s?

The primary objective of mercantilism was to

While the rising demand for slaves in the Chesapeake played some role in the large growth of the Atlantic slave trade between the mid-1500s and the late 1800s, it was the spread of plantation economies in other places that spurred and sustained the traffic in human beings. Which were these other places?

The phase of the enslavement process after slaves had been procured along the African coast and before they were sold in the Americas involved a long sea voyage across the Atlantic known as the ________.

Unlike the English, the Spanish projected a place in their colonies for ________.

The medieval religious order that would become key to the settlement of Spanish North America was the ________.

Women in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake

Explain how sugar and tobacco played similar roles in Virginia and in the Caribbean colonies.

Discuss the causes of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia. Compare and contrast the causes and character of that rebellion with the causes and character of Coode's Rebellion in Maryland.

Describe how the Virginia colony was transformed from a colony in which most unfree laborers were white servants to one in which black slavery was firmly established.

After 1680, Chesapeake planters began to rely more heavily on black slave labor than on indentured white servants because

Which of the following is NOT an accurate description of immigrants to Virginia during the tobacco boom of the 1620s?

Until the fourteenth century Europe imported sugar from

The king who was restored to the throne after the English Civil War was ________.

In 1619 the Virginia Colony began the tradition of self-government in America by authorizing a(n) ________, or the House of Burgesses

Discuss the ways in which the character and composition of the black population and the institution of slavery in the Chesapeake changed between the middle of the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth century.

Was it inevitable that black slavery emerged as the dominant labor system in the Chesapeake? In South Carolina? Could planters in either colony have adopted alternatives-free white workers? White indentured servants? Indian slaves or servants?

British authorities based their colonial trade policies, as embodied in the Navigation Acts, on the theory of