INSTRUCTIONS

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INSTRUCTIONS

• EVERYONE
• Get out your RSG workbook and a
• RED correcting pen/pencil
• Correct pages 23 24 and 27 through 30!!

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Beginnings of Slavery (p. 23-24)
Reasons Why Europeans Enslaved Africans
Africans immune to European diseases (killed Indians)
2. No friends/family to help them escape.
3. Africans permanent source of cheap labor
4. Many knew how to farm were hard workers
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Beginnings of Slavery (p. 23-24)

• 1. Europeans wanted cheap labor for their sugar
  plantations.
• 2. African kings in coastal areas of Africa
  gathered captives from inland kingdoms and traded
  them for European goods. Then the European
  traders shipped the slaves to the Americas.
• 3. The Middle Passage was the middle leg of the
  triangular trade.
• 4. Over time, Europeans came to associate slavery
  with black Africans. To many Europeans, dark skin
  color meant inferiority. This led to the belief
  that some people are inferior because of their
  race.

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Skill Builder (p. 24)

• 1. About 4.7 million more slave brought to
  Americas tween 1701-1810
• 2. 12,000 slaves per year brought to Americas ON
  AVERAGE

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Slavery

• Look at the Pictures (p78)
• SLAVERY
• Indians not good slaves
• Africans better slaves ? many imported
• Middle Passage (see pg 78)
• Portuguese then Dutch make in slave trade

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RSG Ch. 3.1 (p. 27 28)
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RSG Ch. 3.1 (p. 27 28)

• 1. The colonists were looking for greater
  economic opportunity and for escape from
  religious persecution.
• 2. The colony at Roanoke and the Sagadahoc colony
  were the first two English colonies established
  in America.
• 3. In 1601, the Virginia Company of London and
  the Virginia Company of Plymouth were
  established.
• 4. The colonists faced sicknesses and a difficult
  climate. They also spent their time looking for
  gold rather than building homes and growing food.
• 5. The Jamestown settlers continued to take over
  more and more Powhatan land to use for tobacco
  growing.
• 6. Their demand that the governor of the colony
  approve a war against Native Americans was not
  met.

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RSG Ch. 3.2 (p. 29 30)
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RSG Ch. 3.2 (p. 29 30)

• 1. The Native Americans negotiated a treaty with
  the Pilgrims. They showed them how to plant,
  hunt, and fish. The Pilgrims also traded with the
  Native Americans for furs and lumber to ship back
  to England.
• 2. The New England Way stressed hard work, which
  helped to make the colony grow and become
  successful.
• 3. Some people did not support the New England
  Way and were forced to leave the Massachusetts
  colony. Some fled to Rhode Island, a colony
  started by Roger Williams.
• 4. King Philips War was a war over land fought
  between Native Americans and the Massachusetts
  Bay colonists.
• 5. The religious leaders viewed the witchcraft
  trials as a sign from God for the purification of
  the community.

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Explorers

• Map (p63)

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Why did Explorers explore?

• POWER personal govt
• Looking for NORTHWEST PASSAGE
• All water route to the east
• Make money on trade with the east (India China)

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What happened as a result?

• COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE The exchange of native
  plants and animals between the continents
  (America Europe) example tomatoes (Am.) in
  Italian (Europe) tomato sauces. (p. 74)
• LANGUAGE and cultural changes (p. 72)