Life in Colonial America

1
Life in Colonial America

• Chapter Two, Section Two
• 2-2
• Pages 125-131

2
Vocabulary

• Indentured servants worked to pay for their
  passage to America
• Slave Codes strict laws governing the behavior
  and punishment of enslaved Africans
• Subsistence Farmers they produced just enough to
  feed their families
• Proprietary Colony owned by an individual or
  small group of people

3
The Colonies Grow

• Commercial New England
• Long, cold winters made subsistence farming
• shipbuilding
• Colonial Trade
• Triangular trade
• Sugar, molasses from West Indies to colonies
• New England made rum
• Shipped to Africa
• Africans to West Indies

4
The Colonies Grow

• Growth of the Middle Colonies
• More fertile soil than New England
• Cash crops
• Plantation Life in the South
• Tobacco, rice, indigo
• Used indentured servants
• Enslaved Africans
• Slavery in the Southern Colonies
• Inhumane triangular trade Middle Passage
• Slave Codes enforced by overseers
• Criticism of Slavery
• Puritans, Quakers, Mennonites condemned slavery
• Started the Civil War

5
An Emerging Culture

• The Great Awakening
• 1720s religious revival
• New religious groups, education, equality,
  challenge authority
• Education in the Colonies
• 1647 Public Education Law in Mass.
• Harvard, Yale, William and Mary
• Benjamin Franklin
• scientist
• The Press in America
• Newspapers, almanacs, books

6
Colonial Govt

• Self-Govt
• Charter Colonies granted by English monarch
• Proprietary Colonies owned by one person or
  group
• Royal Colonies direct English control
• Only white landowners could vote
• British Colonial Politics
• 1707England ScotlandUnited Kingdom
• 1750 GBtrading empire
• Colonial Resistance
• Navigation Acts controlled sales and tax
• Started smuggling