z Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Colonial Economy Pg

z Chapter 4, Lesson 1 Colonial Economy Pg. 84 -89

z Essential Question: How does geography influence the way people live? § Objectives: § compare the economic diversity of the three regions of the thirteen colonies § Draw conclusions about the role geography played in the colonies economic development § Identify and analyze the triangular trade route that includes the Middle Passage and the trade of enslaved Africans § Describe life for a plantation owner, his family, and enslaved Africans in the Southern Colonies

z First Read-Making A Living in the Colonies & Commercial New England § Be able to answer and discuss: § Vocab term to make sure you have in your cornell notes § Subsistence farming § What is subsistence farming? § How much did this type of farming contribute to the prosperity of a region? § What work was typically done by families of New England farmers? § What were some of the small businesses of New England?

z The Middle Colonies § Be able to answer and discuss: § Vocab terms to make sure you have in your cornell notes § Cash crops § Diversity § How did soil quality and climate in the Middle Colonies affect the development of farming there? § What was the main cash crop of the middle colonies? § What were two areas that were huge markets for the farmers’ cash crop?

z Life in the Southern Colonies § Be able to answer and discuss: § What cash crops were grown in both the Middle Colonies and the South? § What additional cash crop was produced in the South?

z Tobacco and Rice § Be able to answer and discuss: § How did rice farmers change the geography of the land to accommodate their farming needs? § Why is cultivation of rice such difficult work? § How did the popularity of rice and tobacco lead to the growth of slavery in the Southern Colonies?

z The Growth of Slavery § Be able to answer and discuss: § Where did the West African kingdoms get many of the first slaves? § Why did the American colonies become a large, new market for slaves?

z The Middle Passages § Be able to answer and discuss: § Vocab term to make sure you have in your cornell notes § Triangular trade § What goods were sent from the British colonies to Great Britain? § What were rice, tobacco, Indigo, and fur traded for? § What was shipped from Great Britian to be exchanged for slaves?

z The Life of the Slave § Be able to answer and discuss: § Vocab term to make sure you have in your cornell notes § Slave code § What kind of work did enslaved people do? § https: //youtu. be/Qcm 1 m. PWk_p. M

z Critics of Slavery § Be able to answer and discuss: § Why would Quakers object to slavery?