Life in the Colonies

LIFE IN THE COLONIESChapter 4

Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Cash Crops, Slavery, and Imports/Exports

WE WILL…

• Describe the economic activities of the colonies• Identify goods for import and export• Demonstrate the process of the Triangular Trade

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpA5O46Ioyk• Thirteen Colonies

VOCABULARY

• Burgesses – Elected representatives

to an assembly

• Cash Crop – Farm crop raised to be

sold for money

• Export – To sell goods abroad

• Think Exit the country

• Import– To buy goods from

foreign markets• Bring in from other

countries

• Plantation – A large estate run by an

owner or manager and farmed by laborers who lived there (or slaves)

WHAT IS THE TRIANGULAR TRADE?

• A trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa

TRIANGULAR TRADE

• Goods exported from America (Colonies)– Rice, Tobacco, Indigo,

Furs, Whale Oil– Rum, Iron, Tools

• Most Goods were shipped out of northern Coastal Cities

• Goods Imported from Africa and West Indies– Slaves, Gold, Pepper– Molasses

• Goods traded between West Indies, Britain, and Africa– Cloth, Sugar, Iron,

Weapons, Molasses, Slaves

MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Middle Passage– The shipping of Africans

to the West Indies– They were then shipped to

the American Colonies to be sold.

– Slaves were packed into ships, many died on the voyage

– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1BYZRn4Lgc

AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE 1450 - 1870

Destination British America/ Colonies

Mexico and Central America

West Indies Spanish South America

Guianas Brazil Europe

Total 427,000 224,000 4,040,000 522,000 531,000 3,647,000 175,000

SOUTHERN COLONIES

• Warm Climate• Rich Soil• Farming– Tobacco– Rice– Indigo– Cotton

• Cash Crop – – Main cash crop in

Georgia and South Carolina was Rice

– Main Cash Crop in Virginia and North Carolina is Tobacco

– Slaves provided the labor

– How much does slave labor cost?

PLANTATIONS

• A large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers who lived there (or slaves)

• Large plantations had “overseer” to take care of the slaves…– Slave Boss

• What does a plantation look like?

IMPORT VS. EXPORT

• Imports are goods coming in

• Goods we are buying• Imported Goods Cost

Money• Goods we can’t

produce

• Exports are goods exiting

• Goods we are selling• Exported Goods Earn

Money• Goods we have more

than we need to use

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

• Causes • Effect

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yer7OfHyynU