STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 3 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.
JAMESTOWN AND THE CHESAPEAKE
  • How did interactions with the Algonquians shape the Jamestown colony’s early history?

  • How did the development of tobacco cultivation transform the Chesapeake?

SLAVERY
  • What role did sugar play in the development of African slavery in the New World?

  • How did the introduction of African slaves affect the development of Chesapeake society?

INDENTURED SERVITUDE AND BACON’S REBELLION
  • What role did indentured servants play in the transformation of the Chesapeake in the early seventeenth century?

  • What events led to Bacon’s Rebellion, and why did Virginia erupt into violence in 1676?

LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD
  • How did the seventeenth-century English colonies differ from their sixteenth-century Spanish counterparts?

  • How did the introduction of African slaves contribute to the emergence of a distinct southern colonial society?