Main Idea Questions:
1. America's first long term settlement at Jamestown, Virginia nearly did not survive existence. What factors did the colonists face that made life so difficult for them to survive (make sure to know what factors impacted the colonists such as, food, work, health, social, and organization).
2. Why was Bacon’s Rebellion a turning point for the status and rights of people of African descent in Virginia?
3. How was Oglethorpe's view of his Georgia colony different than that of other English colonies and why?
2. Why was Bacon’s Rebellion a turning point for the status and rights of people of African descent in Virginia?
3. How was Oglethorpe's view of his Georgia colony different than that of other English colonies and why?
Terms:
- Puritans
- Separatists
- Oliver Cromwell
- Joint-stock companies
- Virginia Company
- Jamestown
- Powhatan Confederacy
- Chief Powhatan
- John Smith
- Tobacco
- Indentured servants
- Pocahontas
- John Rolfe
- Headright
- Bacon’s Rebellion
- Pilgrims
- Plymouth
- Mayflower
- Mayflower Compact
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- John Winthrop
- Anne Hutchinson
- Roger Williams
- Quakers
- William Penn
- Georgia
- General James E. Oglethorpe
- Slavery in the colonies
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