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

Juan de Oñate was tapped to establish a colony in _______.

This chapter tells the story of the Powhatan confederacy to make the point that

Who called for the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Pan-Indian uprising in North American history?

Describe Powhatan's reactions to the arrival of the English in the Chesapeake. Why did Powhatan allow the settlement at Jamestown to survive?

Does the text's account of Powhatan's confederacy reinforce or contradict the notion of the Chesapeake Indians as "noble savages"who lived a simpler life than did the Europeans who reached their shores? Explain why.

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.

What explains the greater stability of white society in South Carolina after about 1730?

Which of the following was responsible for the drastic decrease in the Pueblo population between 1620 and 1680?

Imagine that you were one of the leaders of the English settlement at Jamestown. What could you have done to lessen the hardships or to prevent the tragedies that took place during the first fifteen years of settlement?

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

The king revoked the company's charter and made Virginia a royal colony in 1624 for what reason?

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.

Discuss the relationship that existed between the Spanish in the Southwest and the Pueblo Indians.

One of Virginia's biggest planters, William Byrd, boasted that, "I am dependent upon no one but Providence."In what ways were Byrd and other planters like him powerful and independent? In what ways were they more dependent than Byrd realized?

The long sea voyage across the Atlantic endured by slaves is known as the _______.

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?

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

Discuss and assess the following statement from the textbook: "All that saved white society in the Chesapeake from renewed crisis and conflict [after Bacon's and Coode's rebellions] was the growth of African slavery."

For strategic reasons, in what location did the Spaniards most rely on the Franciscans?

The leaders of Chesapeake society by the end of the 1600s were able to foster greater unity and stability because