Who started growing tobacco as a cash crop at Jamestown?
John Rolfe
For those who made money, tobacco was brown gold. For slaves, it was_______________.
an evil weed
How did slavery change in 1662 in Virginia?
A law said if your mother was a slave, you were a slave.
In 1705, the Virginia General Assembly wrote a law about slavery. It said:
slavery was for life
How young was the youngest slave who worked in the fields?
seven
King James 1 of England said that tobacco was _____________.
harmful
What was special about Anthony Johnson?
He was an indentured servant who earned his freedom and owned land.
What did slaves remove from tobacco leaves in order to protect a crop from being destroyed?
tobacco hornworm
What was the slavery journey from Africa to North America called?
the middle passage
How many pounds of tobacco did Rolfe send to England in 1613?
2,300 pounds
Use the timeline in this week's paper ti answer this question: What happened first?
20 slaves arrived in Virginia.
Virginia made $12 million from tobacco.
287,959 slaves lived in VIrginia.
John Rolfe grew tobacco that people liked.
Slave labor was used to grow the cash cfops of tobacco and ______________.
cotton
How many slaves total did slave traders bring to the New World in the 1650s?
9 to 15 million
What did slave traders do to slaves on the ship (especially the men)?
They chained them together in the bottom part of the ship.
How many slaves total do historians believe died during the passage from Africa to the New World?
3-5 million
African slaves were taken away from whom?
Their families
