Chapter 3- The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (1601-1700)

The first successful English settlement in North America; English settlers built a fort to protect themselves which was named Jamestown.

England wanted to follow in Spain's footsteps in creating a colony in the New World; they learned how to grow tobacco by the Indians and built a new society based on the tobacco agriculture

Wife of John Rolfe, saved John Smith from death by holding him in his arms; was willing to incorporate Smith and white strangers into the Powhatan empire which created brief peace

Leader of the Jamestown colony and led explorations to Chesapeake Bay; trained settlers to farm and work; whoever does not work will not eat

Chief of the Alquionquin;attacked English settlers; brought english settlers corn to barter for peace but wanted to stay away from them; English attacked them because they did not share their food and stole their corn; in the end they traded with each other

The king of England; after the victory against the spanish armada, he sent out English settlers to settle in North America to further expand its power

It was a royal license to poach on both Spanish claims and Powhatan's chiefdom; was granted by James I

It was winter where food became so short that few settlers resorted to eating their deceased neighbors and whatever animals; when a new group of settlers came, only found 60 out of 500

James I revoked the Virginia Company and made Virginia a royal colony; is subject to the direction of the english government rather than to the company's private investors

An assembly of representatives elected by colony's inhabitants; laws that were passed had to go through the king bureacrats. All free adult men could vote

English colonists found the use of tobacco by Native Americans and started to grow it themselves. The tobacco production gained the colony more money due to increase demand in Europe and more workers arrived to help. This helped the society flourish and transformed the society to growing as much tobacco as possible.

People that planted as much tobacco as possible; a great deal of hand labor was needed and required a lot of time, but had greater rewards in the end; was like a master to indentured servants since they paid for the indenture

Settlers that paid for their own transportation to the Chesapeake recieved a grant of fifty acres of free land; masters used this to get a large amount of land

System that committed servants to four to seven years of labor in exchange to going to the New World, food, and shelter

Women were sold for 120 pounds of tobacco because they could be both wives and servants; men would be able to raise a family and make the children do labor; they cannot marry until they are free, so men would have to purchase their indentures and let them free in order to marry