Colonial+America


 * Be the Critic!!!**Did these students get their facts correct? Where would you improve their work? Why?

I think these students got their facts right and wrong too. I would improve their work on colonial trade, because they didn't add as much information as they should have. The irritation between the mother country and her colonies was found in the Navigation Acts. These acts was to protect the English shipping & secure a profit to the home country from the colonies. Richard the second had been taken for the protection of shipping but there weren't any British statutes that seriously hampered colonial trade. The Long Parliament, exempted New England exports and imports from all duties, and a few years later all goods carried to the southern colonies in English vessels were put on the free list. colonial america

Once you're done watching this video, explain the Main Idea in your virtual notebook. Add a good CCQ as well.

Slavery in America:
Throughout early America, slaves were the ones who produced products for trade. Tabacco spread, and became very famous so they brung many more black slaves.

Products from the southern [t1]  Still, the region remained rural, with economies based on agriculture. Unlike the northern colonies, only a few cities formed in the South.  The southern colonies produced valuable **cash crops**—agricultural products grown to be sold. One was tobacco, America’s most valuable export. Indigo, a plant used to make a blue dye, and rice were also grown in the South. Southerners also produced naval stores—products such as rope, tar, and turpentine that were used to **maintain**  wooden ships. There was great demand in England for these crops—and great profit to be made from them.  
 * **Southern Colonial Economies **

 **The plantation system **  Plantations needed workers, and this need encouraged the growth of slavery. A few huge plantations had hundreds of workers, either indentured servants or slaves. Most farms were smaller and had a work force of fewer than 30. The bulk of these workers labored in the fields, although men and women on large plantations performed other necessary tasks such as shoemaking, weaving, and carpentry. [t2]  

**Rice and indigo **While tobacco was king in Virginia, rice and indigo were the dominant crops in South Carolina. The low-lying coastline and marshes of South Carolina proved ideal for growing rice. Some historians think that enslaved West Africans brought the knowledge of rice growing to America. ||


 * **History Close-Up ** ||  ||

On early rice plantations like this one, nearly all tasks were done by hand. Enslaved Africans performed the arduous work of planting, harvesting, and cultivating the rice. ||
 * **South Carolina Rice Plantation, 1730–1750 **


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**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Tasks on a Rice Plantation ** ||


 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1. ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Planting **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Slaves planted rice by hand in the spring. ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">2. ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Watering **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Rice is grown in flooded fields, so rice plantations were built near natural water sources. ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">3. ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Canal Building **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Plantation owners had slaves construct canals to direct the water to the fields. Canals and floodgates controlled the flow of water to the rice fields. ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">4. ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Harvesting **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Slaves harvested rice in the fall. ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">5. ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Pounding **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Getting the rice ready to sell was hard work. First, slaves pounded the rice. ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">6. ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Winnowing **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Then they brought it to the winnowing house, where they dropped it through a grating in the floor. The rice grains fell to the ground below and were collected. Later, rice mills did this task. ||
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">7. ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Shipping **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> The river also provided a way to transport rice to buyers. ||

Southern Main Idea: They started making indigo and cotton so they can make more money. Northern Main Idea: They make more money by growing stuff and fishing.

 [t1] Why is it that there so important?

 [t2] Tobacco was an important crop, this plantation system developed in Virginia and Maryland. It soon became widespread through South. Plantations so the growth of slaves increased.



Triangular Trade: The triangular trade is a slave trading system.

Question: I think that the Navigation Acts were ill-conceived because of salutary neglect. Do you agree or disagree...explain why...extra points for disagreeing!!!!! I disagree because Colonists weren't able to trade with other countries because of Navigation Acts. Even though they still made money, it wasn't fair because England got more of it.

You will then need to find images to put in your slideshow - here's your task:
 * //Why do you think colonists felt the need to use slave labor? How would you convince someone who is a slave owner to give up their slaves? Remember many people who owned slaves did not like the practice, but felt like they HAD to have slaves...how do you convince them otherwise?//**

**yes, because why would be lie that he wasnt on the ship and what if it were all lies?**
<span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Olaudah Equiano, became rich because he bought and sold slaves.