PPT-Slavery in the Colonies

Big Ideas of the Lesson The English enslaved Africans and forced them to work in the colonies Slavery had terrible effects on people and cultures of Africa Although a majority of the enslaved Africans lived in the Southern Colonies they were part of the population of each of the 13 colonies . Slaves Waiting to be Sold. The Atlantic Slave Trade. About 10 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas between the 1500s and the 1800s. Africans were often bought or captured along the African coast to be sold in the Americas. . Revolution. Two Stories. End of Slavery. Pain of Haiti. 2010 Earthquake. Haiti in Context. Haiti. v. . Dominican Republic. GDP –. 13.2 billion . v. . 100 billion. Per capita – . 1,300$. Life in the Chesapeake. Illnesses. Life expectancy. Men to Women Ratio 6:1. HOW SLAVERY CAME TO THE U.S.. Indentured Servants. Indentured servants became the first means to meet this need for labor. In return for free passage to Virginia, a laborer worked for four to five years in the fields before being granted freedom. The Crown rewarded planters with 50 acres of land for every inhabitant they brought to the New World. Naturally, the colony began to expand. That expansion was soon challenged by the Native American confederacy formed and named after Powhatan. Chapter . 4. , . Lesson . 1. Intro. An Englishman by the name of Andrew Burnaby traveled through the American Colonies in 1760.. He observed the lifestyle of the colonist and claimed that he could not see the colonist uniting for a purpose.. 4.1 The New England Colonies . Boston was the busiest town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Religion played a crucial part in the development of the N.E colonies. Maine (part of MA), New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. Europeans and American Indians maneuvered and fought for dominance, control, and security in North America, and distinctive colonial and native societies emerged.. Review of period 1 Group quizzes . Multiple choice questions. King . Philp’s. War. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DCFIJ26EaI. . http://www.schooltube.com/video/449ab8a4c3554d5eb00e/King Philip's War Part 2 . 1675: New England . – Indian alliance attacks farms/settlements . 1625-1700. AP FOCUS. Similarities and differences amongst the colonial regions, focusing on:. Geography. Politics. Economics. Religion. Social structure. Religious toleration and separation of church and state. The English enslaved Africans and forced them to work in the colonies.. Slavery had terrible effects on people and cultures of Africa. Although a majority of the enslaved Africans lived in the Southern Colonies, they were part of the population of each of the 13 colonies. . Colonial Society in the 18. th. Century. Life in the . chesapeake. Population. Life expectancy: 10 years less than England; 50% not living past 20 y/o. Most immigrants young, single men; women extremely scarce. Mason- . Dixon Line . Divided Southern Colonies from the rest of the . colonies. Between Pennsylvania and Maryland. 244 miles long. Named after Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. They surveyed the land and created the “line.”. - the Southern Colonies were made up of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia . Ch.4, Sec.3 – The Southern Colonies: Plantations & Slavery. The Plantation Economy . - the South’s fertile soil and almost year-round growing season was ideal to grow cash crops like tobacco, rice, and cotton. Topic #7 Development of Colonial Slavery How did European slavery of Africans first develop? Portuguese fort named Elmina (“the mine”) Portuguese first began using slaves on the sugar plantations established on Sao Tome and Principe Slavery existed in . the United States from the early 17th century until 1865, when . Congress. enacted the . Thirteenth Amendment. shortly after the Union victory over the Confederacy in the . Civil War.