Colonial+America

Colonial America

Yes..........I think the kids got most of their facts right. I don't think the last bit about the colonies profiting from being alone was right because the colonies did not profit after the laws were passed.

Partner: The kids got most of the facts right, they should have deleted some of the unnecessary pictures

Notes-9/22

__MI__: Agriculture was a very important thing in Colonial America. People in New England grew just enough crops to feed themselves, because the climate restricted crop growth. People down south grew more crops, because they had a better crop growing climate, to trade with other colonies+get $.
 * Northern Colonies**

__MI__: The forests provided colonists with a lot of resources. They used the trees for wood, and they killed animals in the woods for fur. The colonists also fished. About 33,000 people were shipbuilders, so fishing and boatmaking was a huge industry.

__MI__: Since trade with England was extremely expensive, colonists made a lot of things for themselves. Mills, breweries, ironworks, brickworks, cloth-making, etc.

Triangular trade: Traded rum for slaves in Africa. Traded slaves for molasses +sugar in West Indies, Shipped sugar+molasses back to NE for rum. ^Shows the routes the ships took to trade slaves/molasses/rum CCQs: How much molasses/rum was a slave worth? How much rum did that make? Its hard to believe that they traded people for sweets/alcohol.

9/29/10 Homework:

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[|yonghachen] I disagree, because England had a right to want to make money. They sent the colonists over there(umm, here?) to make money. The colonists chose to go and settle here. When England saw that they weren't making as much money because the colonists traded with other countries, they wanted that money, and they can do whatever they want to get it, so they made these laws. The idea wasn't ill-conceived, it was just that England didn't really enforce the laws that well.
 * re: CCQ's on Colonial America**

[|yonghachen] Colonists had 2 choices: Pay them for work (Lose money) or Force them to work for free (Keep money)
 * re: Responses - Why didn't they pay them?**

Colonists want money. Colonists force slaves to work. Colonists get to keep money. Colonists happy.

CCQ's: How many of the slaves that were brought from Africa survived? The document said that 11 million slaves were shipped from Africa. How many actually made it to their destinations? It seems from the living conditions and the beatings from the crew that that number would be quite low.

Why did they treat the slaves so badly? I thought that they had to pay to get the slaves. It would make sense to treat the slaves better so more make it. They would just be losing money by treating them so badly and giving them bad living conditions where many of them died. _ It shouldn't matter that this story might be a lie because it does inform other people about the living conditions. He tells us what the slaves had to go through. Even though this might not be entirely true, some of what he described might have actually happened.

It shouldn't change my opinion, and it doesn't. It doesn't matter how he got his freedom, people will do anything to get out of slavery. Many of the people on the ship even committed suicide. He didn't care about other slaves, he just wanted freedom. After he was free, he did work to abolish slavery. I wonder if how many slaves he freed was more than how many he sold. _ 9/24/10 HW: Wordles