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| What rule did John Smith announce to make sure Jamestown would survive? | Only people who worked would get food. |
| What important product did Jamestown settlers export to Europe? | Tobacco |
| What was the Middle Passage? | The slave ship voyage from Africa. |
| What caused the fighting between early Carolinian settlers and Native Americans? | The settlers wanted to take Native American land by force and to force Native Americans to work in their tobacco and rice fields. |
| Why was life on a southern farm lonelier than life in a New England village? | Southern farms and plantations were far apart from each other, so southerners had few neighbors. |
| What was the headright system? | A system whereby a company would give 50 acres of land to every person who paid for his or her own passage to America and settled in Virginia. These settlers would receive an additional 50 acres for each person accompanying them. |
| What did James Oglethorpe hope to achieve in Georgia. | He wanted to establish a non-slave colony where former prisoners could work raising silkworms for him. |
| What important skills of Africans helped the Carolina colony survive? | Canoe making, fishing techniques, cattle herding, rice cultivation, basket weaving, and gourd carving. |
| Describe the first government of the Virginia colony. | Virginia had a representative government in which voters elected representatives. The legislature was called the House of Burgesses. |
| Who could vote in Virginia's first elections? | Only "free men" could vote. Free men were property-holding white males. |
| To vote for a member of the House of Burgesses, what kind of person did you need to be? | A free, white man. |
| What was the original plan for making a fortune in Carolina? | To raise silkworms for silk. |
| Why did the Africans' immunity help them in Carolina? | They did not get as sick as the European settlers. |
