chapter 3 section 2 “the agricultural south”. if you were enslaved in the colonies, what would...
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Chapter 3 Section 2
“The Agricultural South”
• If you were enslaved in the colonies, what would you do?
• I’m sure you would not want to suffer your fate, so what would you do to rebel?
• BE CAREFUL, there are always consequences to your actions!!!
• 1. What’s going on in your picture?
• 2. What EMOTION WORDS can you use when you look at your picture?
• 3. What does your picture show you about the Atlantic Slave Trade or Middle Passage?
Plantation Economy
• Cash crop:
• Why did plantations develop instead of towns in the Southern Colonies? (3 reasons)
• South was mostly rural and self-sufficient
• Planters-owners- of large profitable plantations controlled much of the South’s economy, politics, and social institutions.
• There was great wealth in the South, particularly for Chesapeake tobacco planters.
Women
• Few rights• Couldn’t vote, preach, own property• Did a large amount of work on the farm and in
the home• Second class citizens
Indentured Servants
• Traded prison or poverty to come to America• No rights while under indenture • Life continued to be hard afterward• Numbers of indentured servants dropped by
the end of the 1600s
Slavery
• Most white colonists had no reservations about buying slaves
• Atlantic Slave Trade (Triangular Trade): network of trade routes criss-crossing the colonies, West Indies, England, Europe, & Africa
Middle Passage
• Describe: