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Week Three |
Reading
for this week:
- "Southern
Colonies in the Seventeenth Century"
Discussion
questions:
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Print of early
Chesapeake tobacco plantation |
1. Using the
print at the right (click on it for larger version) what can you determine
about English society in the Chesapeake?
How does it compare to that at Secotan?
2. Identify
two ways in which the features of the government of Virginia—the first
established under the Virginia Company—changed when King James I revoked its
corporate charter in 1624 and made Virginia a royal colony.
3. Defend
the following statement with specific evidence: The servant labor system
perpetuated the gender imbalance in seventeenth-century Virginia.
4. Chesapeake
and Maryland colonists considered tobacco cultivation and trade their primary
concern and, unlike fellow colonists in New England, religion a secondary
concern. Discuss the reasons for this lack of religious zeal in the southern
colonies.
5. Before
1650, relative equality existed among free families in Chesapeake. Around 1650,
Chesapeake society splintered into two social groups who mistrusted each other.
Identify the social groups and the causes of this polarity.
6. List the
stipulations of the Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663 and explain these acts’ purpose.
7. Briefly
identify the major reason for Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676. Include Bacon’s
principal demand of Governor Berkeley, Berkeley’s response, and the result of
Berkeley’s response.
8. Discuss
the 1680 Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish in New Mexico.
9.
On what basis could a student of history
conclude that the slave-labor system reduced the tensions between poor white
farmers and prosperous planters in the Chesapeake region after 1670?