PPT-Ch.4, Sec.3 – The Southern Colonies: Plantations & Slavery

the Southern Colonies were made up of Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia Ch4 Sec3 The Southern Colonies Plantations amp Slavery The Plantation Economy the Souths fertile soil and almost yearround growing season was ideal to grow cash crops like tobacco rice and cotton. 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. Dr. Gary Richards. Key Dates in American (Later U.S.) Slavery . to . 1840. 1492. Christopher Columbus, exploring under the Spanish flag, arrives in the Caribbean and immediately assesses the viability of natives being used for forced labor. Over the next decade, however, as European disease decimates native populations, it becomes clear that other labor sources will be needed to meet European demands.. Chapter 3. Objective. To analyze the economic, social, and political growth of the 13 colonies and examine how the colonies and Britain began to grow apart. Time Line (pages 64-65). How long did the French and Indian War last?. Geography. Five colonies that make up the south are:. Maryland. Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia. Share a coastal area called the tidewater which was a flat lowland that includes many swampy areas. 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. . 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.. Maryland. Sir George Calvert got the charter from King Charles I in 1632. His son, Lord Baltimore, settled the area in 1634. About 200 colonists settled there. Lord Baltimore was the proprietor of the colony. The Puritans migrated to New England to. a. .. escape religious persecution.. b.. establish Catholic missions.. c.. maintain the practices of the Anglican Church.. d.. start tobacco plantations.. The Puritans migrated to New England to. 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. . Seventeenth Century. 1607–1692. I. The Unhealthy Chesapeake. Life in the American wilderness:. Life was nasty, brutish, and short.. Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took their toll.. Newcomers died ten years earlier.. 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.”. 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 Middle Colonies. Started with the Dutch setting up New Amsterdam along the Hudson river. The English took control of New Amsterdam in 1664 when the English sailed into the harbor and the governor had no choice but to surrender to the English. 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.