A | B |
Puritans took over England | after King Charles I executed |
Cavalier | supporters of King Charles I who fled to VA |
King Charles II called Virginia | his Old Dominion because he had so many supporters there |
Dominion | Land a king rules |
Most virginians grew | tobacco |
Used tobacco as money | because there were no banks in VA |
Colonists also bought goods | on credit (agreeing to pay later) |
King Charles II forced colonists | to sell tobacco to English merchants |
Fall of tobacco prices | caused colonists to go into debt |
Governor Berkley angered colonists by | enforcing trade laws, giving rich friends positions, refusing new elections |
Governor Berkley refused | to help protect the colonists from indian attacks |
Nathaniel Bacon | led a volunteer army against the indians |
Bacon later turned his forces | on Jamestown where they burned it to the ground |
Europeans | ran trading forts on the West African coast, turned to slave trade |
Indentured servants | agreed to help with the tobacco crop |
planters paid | for indentured passage to new world in exchange for 4-7 year of work |
First African captives | brought over as indentured servants |
Later Africans | were brought over as slaves |
drop in tobacco prices | helped increase slavery |
journey across the ocean slave's made | known as middle passage |
Triangular trade route | described to slave trade routes |