1. The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition
Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson
The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 3
The Southern Colonies
in the Seventeenth Century:
1601–1700
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2. An English Colony on the Chesapeake
The Fragile Jamestown Settlement
Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers
From Private Company to Royal Government

3. A Tobacco Society Tobacco Agriculture A Servant Labor System
Cultivating Land and Faith

4. The Evolution of Chesapeake Society
Social and Economic Polarization
Government Policies and Political Conflict
Bacon’s Rebellion

5. in the Spanish Borderland
Religion and Revolt
in the Spanish Borderland

6. Toward a Slave Labor System
The West Indies: Sugar and Slavery
Carolina: A West Indian Frontier
Slave Labor Emerges in the Chesapeake

7. Chapter 3 The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: 1601–1700
Map 3.1 Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (p. 78)
Map 3.2 The West Indies and Carolina in the Seventeenth Century (p. 95)
Global Comparison: Migration to the New World from Europe and Africa, 1492–1700 (p. 96)
Secotan Village (p. 71)
John Smith’s Dictionary of Powhatan’s Language (p. 74)