Author Question: Did tobacco provide a salvation for the Virginia colony or merely set the stage for future problems? ... (Read 34 times)

armygirl · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

In North America, the Dutch West India Company's ________ colony was small and profitable.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 2

Compare Spanish experiences in their frontier outposts of Florida and New Mexico in the late 1600s and early 1700s.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

Explain the pragmatic as well as the psychological reasons that led white American colonists of the seventeenth century to transform the black servant from a human being to a piece of chattel property.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

You are an indentured servant living in the Virginia colony in 1650. Describe your background, current conditions, and future prospects.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 5

Did tobacco provide a salvation for the Virginia colony or merely set the stage for future problems? Explain.

What will be an ideal response?

Yixagurpuldink · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 21, 2019

Answer 1

Answer: New Netherland

Answer 2

Answer: Spain's outposts in Florida and New Mexico fell into disarray between 1680 and the early 1700s. They used small numbers of settlers in both, relying on forced Indian labor. This was their undoing. The Pueblos, led by medicine man Pope, revolted against the Spanish, particularly when their native religious ceremonies were threatened. While the Spanish won, they declared a cultural truce. In Florida, the Spanish and their Indian missions were threatened by the English and their Indian allies. While the Spanish held onto St. Augustine, they were not able to drive out the English and French. The latter would have the main influence over Florida Indians.

Answer 3

Answer: The key step in the dehumanization of African slaves was instituting hereditary lifetime service. Slavery became not only a system of forced labor, but also a pattern of human relationships authorized by law. Further, definition of slaves as less than human justified brutal behavior by whites in exercising that control.

Answer 4

Answer: Indentured servants were enticed to Virginia by free passage as well as the promise of free land in return for seven years of labor. To Englishmen from the lower classes, the offer seemed irresistible. Life for indentured servants was difficult, filled with disease and a brutal work routine. Only about one in 20 realized the dream of achieving freedom and acquiring land. For a woman, the best escape was marriage to a free man who might purchase her indenture.

Answer 5

Answer: The cultivation of tobacco provided Virginia economic profits and obliged planters to recruit a reliable supply of cheap labor. Initially, European indentured servants fit the bill. Virginia's steady expansion and encroachment on Indian lands provoked violence between the colonizers and Indians.