Making Connections

1. Given the vulnerability of the Jamestown settlement in its first two decades, why did its sponsors and settlers not abandon it?

2. How did tobacco agriculture shape the Chesapeake region’s development? In your answer, be sure to address the demographic and geographic features of the colony.

3. Bacon’s Rebellion highlighted significant tensions within Chesapeake society. What provoked the rebellion, and what did it accomplish?

4. How did European colonists’ relations with Native Americans and enslaved Africans contribute to political friction and harmony within the colony?