Review Questions

1. Question

   Why did Powhatan behave as he did toward the English colonists? (“An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay”)

2. Question

   Why did the vast majority of European immigrants to the Chesapeake come as indentured servants? (“A Tobacco Society”)

3. Question

   Why did Chesapeake colonial society become increasingly polarized between 1650 and 1670? (“Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake”)

4. Question

   Why had slave labor largely displaced indentured servant labor by 1700 in Chesapeake tobacco production? (“Toward a Slave Labor System”)