Colonial Wrap Up Quiz pt 2

An indentured servant is

• Person who has agreed by contract to serve as a slave for 5 to 7 years in exchange for their passage to the “New World”

• Has been kidnapped from their homeland, chained in a ship and taken to the colonies to be sold as a permanent servant whose children will also be bound to service or sold to other colonists.

Slaves were first brought to Virginia in

• 1609

• 1619

• 1669

• 1709

Of the 500 people who first came to Jamestown before the Starving Time in 1610, how many survived

• 400

• 310

• 170

• 60

What cash crop helped the colony to survive long term?

• Tobacco

• sugar

• corn

• cotton

Under the headright system allowed for

• 50 acres of land to the wealthy colonist who paid for passage of the indentured servant

• Massive expansion of land ownership of land by a single wealthy colonist

• A way for the English Government to get rid of extra unemployed people

• Women “servants” who got pregnant for their contracts to be extended.

• All of the above

The survival rate of indenture servants in Virginia was only about

• 60%

• 50%

• 40%

• 30%

Which one of these is NOT true

Single women of good character transported from England to the Jamestown Colony of Virginia between 1620-1624...

• To be married to male colonists already established there

• To help the colony establish a foothold by creating generations of “American” colonists

• As a way to even out the number of women to men ratio in the colonies

• As a punishment for crimes committed in England

Women were offered land ownership as an incentive to go to Virginia and Marry a colonist of their choosing

• True

• False

Nathaniel Bacon was

• An escaped indentured servant

• A wealthy aristocrat from an elite English family

• A wealthy man who was rejected by the English social elite

• Related to Ms. Macon at Bloom High School.

Bacon’s rebellion

• A rebellion of pig farmers who wanted to get into the tobacco growing business

• A successful rebellion that overthrew the Virginia governor and helped Bacon capture the colony

• Was a rebellion of freed whites indentured servants who were frustrated by a lack of good land, indian attacks, and a social system that kept them poor.

• A slave revolt that ended in more restrictive slavery