Unit 4 Life in Colonial America Write down everything in YELLOW. What do we already know?

Discuss at your tables….

What do you know about the 13 colonies?

Culture? Geography?

Government? History? Economics? Colonies

● Settlement in the Middle Colonies was based on the long growing season and rich soil. ● A pull factor in the Middle Colonies was fertile farm land. ● Shipping and Manufacturing helped the growth of the Colonies. ● The Southern Colonies were known for their large and slavery. Review: Indentured Servants

Indentured servants would work for a set number of years in exchange for their ship fare to the colonies.

Most indentured servants were hired by wealthy landowners to work for a set number of years.

Indentured Servants were considered an emerging labor force in the colonies. Colonial Government

P.287 Laws affecting each colony were made by the colonial assemblies. In the New England Colonies, the town meeting was the earliest form of self-government. The town meeting was a group of male colonists who got together to solve local problems. In other colonies men created written plans for government. These plans spelled out important rights that the colonists would have.

New England town meetings: decisions were made, laws were voted on and people were elected to public office. Eight of the 13 colonies were ruled by royal governors. A royal governor was not elected by the colonists. Instead he was chosen by the king of England. Royal governors saw that the colony obeyed British laws. Sometimes the governor and the assembly disagreed on which laws had to be obeyed. If the governor found the assembly unwilling to support him, he could dissolve, or shut down, the assembly.

Assembly members could, in return, refused to vote for money for the governor’s plans. “Let us keep the dogs poor and we’ll make them do what we please,” one New Jersey assembly member said of the governors. The royal governors did not always have the same view as the assembly members. Colonial Government

● With the help of Colonial Assemblies, colonists were able to run their everyday affairs.

● The Colonial Assemblies shared their power with the governor who was appointed by the British King. Graphic Organizers

● Use graphic organizers from ○ lesson 1 page 1 supplemental materials ○ Lesson 2 page 1 supplemental materials ○ Lesson 3 page 1 supplemental materials ● Have students copy and create in small groups or in notes Check for Understanding

Complete page 7 of 10 supplemental materials lesson 4 in small groups.

Check together.

Have students take notes I can describe triangular trade; including a route on a map, people and goods traded, the Middle Passage and the changes in the lives of the people in Africa. I can draw and label a map of triangular trade. What do you think this map is showing? What do you notice? What is happening? Textbook: Triangular Trade (p.230) Many New England merchants and sea captains also became rich in the triangular trade. The first leg of the triangle started at such ports as Boston and NEw York. Traders sailed from these ports to the coast of West Africa, where they traded rum and guns for gold, ivory and captive Africans.

The second leg of the triangle began in Africa. This part of the voyage was called the Middle Passage because it was the middle part of the triangular trade route. Thousands of Africans died on the voyage to the Americans, which lasted 6 to 8 weeks.

In the West Indies the sea captains traded Africans for , a thick made from . Then they returned to New England, where the molasses was made into rum. This was the last leg of the triangular trade route. Port cities such as Boston grew very quickly on the money earned in the triangular trade. VOCABULARY

SLAVERY TRIANGULAR MIDDLE TRADE A system forcing PASSAGE people to work and Trade pattern between Route used to take treating them as Africa, West Indies and enslaved Africans property. the colonies involving across the Atlantic goods and slaves. Ocean. Colonies Rum, guns, cloth and tools

Slaves, and molasses Lumber, fish and flour Africa

Enslaved Africans West Indies Slavery in the Middle Passage

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● I can explain what life was like for slaves in the colonies. ● I can describe how slaves used their culture and their new lives in the colonies to develop their own culture: including words, food and music. Vocabulary

● Discrimination → treating people unfairly because of religion or race (color of your skin) ● Indentured Servant → a person who worked in exchange for ship fare (to pay for their trip to the colonies) Slave Codes

→ laws that made enslaved Africans slaves for life and made them property.

→ illegal for them to marry, to own land, bare arms or earn freedom Was slavery only in the Southern Colonies?

● No, slavery was in ALL the colonies, but most of the slaves were in the South.

Southern colonies and slaves:

→ They grew large plantations of tobacco, indigo and rice.

→ They needed a large labor force (group of people to work) New York: slavery began in 1626 when they forced enslaved Africans to do jobs like clearing forests, building roads etc. Then the colony was used as a slave market to buy and sell slaves.

New Jersey: offered 60 acres of land (per slave) to any man who imported African slaves. The life of enslaved Africans

★ Harsh treatment ★ Attacked by slave owners ★ Worked 7 days a week ★ Not a lot of food ★ No doctors were allowed ★ Lots of discrimination ○ Not allowed to marry ○ Cannot own land ○ Had to work for life ○ Could not bare arms Were there free Africans in the colonies?

Yes, there were also free blacks in colonial America. But they began to experience discrimination too.

For example, in 1690 Connecticut made a law making it illegal for free blacks (or Native Americans) to be outside after 9:00 pm. Contradiction: when two ideas or action are in conflict (opposite of each other) Discuss: How are the colonists contradicting themselves? The slave trade had an effect on the people still living in Africa.

How???

● Families were split up ● Those that were left had to do all the work. ● Villages lost lots of people. ● Cultures in Africa changed because they lost farmers, artists, teachers and leaders ● Farming and trading were disrupted. ● Populations in Africa changed (shrank) How did enslaved Africans recall their African past and adapt elements of their new culture to create a new African American culture?

Enslaved Africans had strong families ties and oral traditions. They passed down their culture, beliefs and stories orally. I can identify causes and effects of the triangular trade and the middle passage.

CAUSES

Enslaved Africans were taken across the middle passage

EFFECTS I can identify causes and effects of the triangular trade and the middle passage.

Workers were needed Triangular trade routes Goods like rum, in the English colonies were established. molasses and sugar to work on plantations were available to trade. and farms. CAUSES

Enslaved Africans were taken across the middle passage

African ideas and traditions The colonies grew and African cultures, villages were brought to the colonies prospered (made money). and families were negatively affected. :( EFFECTS Daily Life in the Colonies Which region is described in each paragraph?

The majority of the Fishing, whaling and There were few towns and people made their living trading were economic cities in this region and by farming cash crops. activities. Puritan laws plantations and farms were Market towns were were often very strict. In spread out. Children were tutored or went to schools important in this region. addition, religion, school built on property. In addition, both the and education were The plantations required culture and religion of the important. It was many workers and enslaved population was diverse. expected that everyone Africans were used to do the Children attended could read the Bible. work. In addition, laws schools which were run Community decisions relating to slavery called by different types of were made in town “slave codes” were put into churches. meetings. place and enforced. Colonial Economy

Raw Materials: trees, lumbar, wool, cotton etc.

The Colonies Britain / England

Manufactured Goods: boats, furniture, houses etc. Britain created the “Trade Laws”

1699 “The Wool Act” → any clothing made from wool in the colonies could ONLY be sent / sold to Britain (they could not make money from other countries)

1732 “The ” → Hats made in the colonies cannot be exported (sent to be sold in another country)

1733 “The Molasses Act” → put a tax on all molasses, rum and sugar from any country except Britain. This made things more expensive for the colonists.

1750 “The ” → No new furnaces can be made in the colonies. Also, colonists cannot make hardware (tools).

How would these new laws affect the colonists? 4. Which of the 4 colonial regions had the House of Colonial Regional Quiz Burgesses as an early form of government? a. New England 1. Which of the 3 colonial regions began in b. Middle Jamestown? c. Southern a. New England 5. What was the nickname of the Middle colonies? b. Middle a. Mid-land c. Southern b. Breadbasket 2. Which of the 3 colonial regions began in c. Toast Plymouth? 6. Which of the 3 colonial regions were strongly a. New England influenced by the Puritians? b. Middle a. New England c. Southern b. Middle 3. Which of the 3 colonial regions had the c. Southern longest growing season and rich soil for 7. Why was the colony of Georgia founded? growing tobacco, indigo and rice? a. As a place for religious freedom a. New England b. By the Pilgrims to practice their religion b. Middle c. As a debtors colony c. Southern d. To grow tobacco Colonial Regional Quiz Part 2

8. What were the main economic factors in 11. Write 3-5 sentences to explain how the New England? colonial regions were the same. a. Farming tobacco, indigo and rice 12. Write 3-5 sentences to explain how the b. Farming grain and corn colonial regions were different. c. Manufacturing, fishing, whaling and trading 13. Write 3-5 sentences to explain what 9. Which of the 3 colonial regions were the TRIANGULAR TRADE was. Include who most diverse culturally and religiously? was involved and examples of what was a. New England b. Middle traded. Include a picture if you want. c. Southern 10. Which of the 3 colonial regions depended on slavery the most? a. New England b. Middle c. Southern