The Southern Colonies

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The first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607

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Jamestown

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Leader of Jamestown that improved relations between the colonists and the Powhatan Confederacy; was allegedly saved by Pocahontas

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John Smith

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Powhatan princess who allegedly saved John Smith's life and married John Rolfe

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Pocahontas

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Workers that reached America by working for free for other people who paid for their journeys

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Indentured Servants

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The first enslaved Africans were brought to the English colonies in

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1619

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System where you received 50 acres of land per person you paid for to come to Virginia

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Headright system

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Uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes that resulted in more slavery and Jamestown being burnt down.

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Bacon's Rebellion

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Laws used to control slaves were called

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Slave codes

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Which of the following is NOT a Southern Colony: Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky?

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Kentucky

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Colony governed by a royal charter with no direct involvement of the monarch

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Charter