English America

English America

English colonies in America

Northern colonies = new Europe
Southern colonies = focus on cash crops

The Unhealthy Chesapeake

• Disease--malaria, typhoid, dysentery

• Low life expectancy--remember Jamestown

• 50% did not live past 20 years old

• Mostly men, few women or families

Open Ended

Why do you think it was mostly men that came to Jamestown (think about the purpose of the colony)?

Multiple Select

Check all that apply. What is an effect of tobacco overproduction?

• lower profits

• decreased need for land

• higher prices for tobacco

• increased need for labor

Tobacco & Labor

• Indentured Servants--English immigrants who work for a period of several years in exchange for passage to America & opportunity to receive their own land

• Headright System--Whoever paid for the passage of a laborer got 50 acres of land

• Result: Rich planters had vast amounts of land

Poll

Do you think the Headright System was a good way to settle America?

• Yes

• No

Bacon's Rebellion, 1676

• Large numbers of poor men joined together against the colonial government because they did not have land & there was no protection against Indian attacks

• Burned Jamestown and took whatever they found of value

• Result--shift to slaves from Africa as labor source

Open Ended

Why would Jamestown shift to slaves from Africa instead of indentured servitude after Bacon's Rebellion?

Multiple Select

Where are most of the slaves being shipped to?

• Europe

• Brazil

• Central America

• Caribbean

• English colonies

Slavery in the South Atlantic 

• (South Carolina-->Brazil): focus on rice, indigo, & sugar

• Slaves worked until death

• No slave families

• Most born in Africa so there is unique African culture 

Slavery in the Chesapeake

• Virginia & Maryland: focus on tobacco

• Slave families--slave population increased naturally

• Loss of African culture because more were born in America

Maintaining the Slave System

• Brutality

• Separation of families/community

Open Ended

What forms of resistance do you think slaves used against owners?

New England Colonies

• Better climate--cooler temperatures decreased risk of disease

• Pilgrims & Puritans--came over as family units

• Homogeneous society--tight knit community that conformed to society

• Yeoman society--equal landowners, mostly subsistence farmers

Multiple Choice

Which best describes homogeneous?

• people are diverse

• people are the same

Poll

Which region do you think was the most tolerant?

• New England colonies

• Middle colonies

• Southern colonies

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