Colonies

plantation

an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown and harvested by resident labor, typically slaves

Cash Crops

Tobacco: Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina

Rice/Indigo: South Carolina, Georgia

Colonial Women

“Second-class citizens” to men

Few legal/social rights

Daughters of planters may learn to read, write, and do math

Otherwise, learned domestic tasks and did household tasks.

Indentured Servants

Trade prison for servitude in North America

Few rights while servants, also few when freed

Many workers stay in Europe instead

Plantation owners looking for other means of labor, turning to slaves instead

Slaves and Slavery

Originally used Native Americans as slaves, but disease killed a large number of the population and they could easily run away because they know the area

Worked for life

Beginning seeds of racism

The Triangular Trade

a trading route that supported the transport of imports and exports between Great Britain, Africa, the Caribbean, and America

The Middle Passage

The “middle” leg of the journey, where Africans were brought to North America

Culture and Family in Slavery

Keep selves alive with music, stories, culture, dance, religion

Torn from families → raise each others’ children

Planters try to keep them down

Stono Rebellion (1739)

Slaves grab weapons and gather southwest of Charles Town

Kill planters and families while fleeing to Spanish Florida

Militia stops them in their tracks

Makes South nervous → harsher slave laws

New England Colonies

Rhode Island

Connecticut

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Middle Colonies

Delaware

Pennsylvania

New York

New Jersey

Southern Colonies

Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

The Breadbasket Colonies

A Nickname for the middle colonies because they produced so much grain: oats, wheat, rye

Immigrant

A person who comes into a country to start a new life

Diversity

A group of people from very different backgrounds