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LIFE IN THE COLONIESChapter 4
Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Cash Crops, Slavery, and Imports/Exports
WE WILL…
• Describe the economic activities of the colonies• Identify goods for import and export• Demonstrate the process of the Triangular Trade
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpA5O46Ioyk• Thirteen Colonies
VOCABULARY
• Burgesses – Elected representatives
to an assembly
• Cash Crop – Farm crop raised to be
sold for money
• Export – To sell goods abroad
• Think Exit the country
• Import– To buy goods from
foreign markets• Bring in from other
countries
• Plantation – A large estate run by an
owner or manager and farmed by laborers who lived there (or slaves)
WHAT IS THE TRIANGULAR TRADE?
• A trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa
TRIANGULAR TRADE
• Goods exported from America (Colonies)– Rice, Tobacco, Indigo,
Furs, Whale Oil– Rum, Iron, Tools
• Most Goods were shipped out of northern Coastal Cities
• Goods Imported from Africa and West Indies– Slaves, Gold, Pepper– Molasses
• Goods traded between West Indies, Britain, and Africa– Cloth, Sugar, Iron,
Weapons, Molasses, Slaves
MIDDLE PASSAGE
• Middle Passage– The shipping of Africans
to the West Indies– They were then shipped
to the American Colonies to be sold.
– Slaves were packed into ships, many died on the voyage
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1BYZRn4Lgc
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE 1450 - 1870
Destination British America/ Colonies
Mexico and Central America
West Indies Spanish South America
Guianas Brazil Europe
Total 427,000 224,000 4,040,000 522,000 531,000 3,647,000 175,000
SOUTHERN COLONIES
• Warm Climate• Rich Soil• Farming– Tobacco– Rice– Indigo– Cotton
• Cash Crop – – Main cash crop in
Georgia and South Carolina was Rice
– Main Cash Crop in Virginia and North Carolina is Tobacco
– Slaves provided the labor
– How much does slave labor cost?
PLANTATIONS
• A large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers who lived there (or slaves)
• Large plantations had “overseer” to take care of the slaves…– Slave Boss
• What does a plantation look like?
IMPORT VS. EXPORT
• Imports are goods coming in
• Goods we are buying• Imported Goods Cost
Money• Goods we can’t
produce
• Exports are goods exiting
• Goods we are selling• Exported Goods Earn
Money• Goods we have more
than we need to use
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
• Causes • Effect
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yer7OfHyynU