Read Section 1 (pgs. 70-76) with your 3:00 clock partner and complete the

Agree/Disagree activity AFTER reading.

I will collect this sheet and we will go over this PowerPoint following your

assignment.

Reading for Meaning

Unit 2:Georgia in the

Colonial PeriodChapters 5-7

Background of the Colonies

Standards

• SS8H2 The student will analyze the colonial period of Georgia’s history. • a. Explain the importance of James Oglethorpe, the

Charter of 1732, reasons for settlement (charity, economics, and defense), Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove, and the city of Savannah. • b. Evaluate the Trustee Period of Georgia’s colonial

history, emphasizing the role of the Salzburgers, Highland Scots, malcontents, and the Spanish threat from Florida. • c. Explain the development of Georgia as a royal colony

with regard to land ownership, slavery, government, and the impact of the royal governors.

Section Vocabulary• Pilgrims (p. 70)• Puritans (p. 71)• commonwealth (p. 71)• triangular trade (p. 72)• cash crop (p. 73)• Gullah (p. 74)• plantation economy (p. 75)• Olaudah Equiano (p. 75)• Great Awakening • Enlightenment

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/thirteencolonies

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The New England ColoniesConnecticut, Rhode Island,

Massachusetts, New Hampshire• The Pilgrims were part of a religious group called

Separatists. • Wanted to separate from Church of England

• 1620: 100 Pilgrims set sail for VA on the Mayflower

• Pilgrims blew off course and landed in Massachusetts – settlement called Plymouth• Starvation, disease

• Squanto showed settlers how to survive• 1st Thanksgiving• Prosperous colony

• Lumber was harvested & sent back to England

Lumber

• 1630s: Puritans left England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony• Puritans did not want to separate from the

Church of England but wanted to “purify” Church practices.

• Puritans wanted to start a commonwealth, a community in which people work together for the good of the whole.• Church congregations bought land and

divided it among members.

Puritan Town

• Colony governed by adult, Puritan men• All colonists had to

attend church.• Puritan work ethic –

“New England Way”• People who did not

follow the Puritan way were expelled.• Emphasis on education• Harvard University

est. 1636

• Many natural resources in New England colonies (fur, lumber, soil)• New England was involved with the triangular trade • The Triangular trade was a trading cycle between

Africa, Europe and the Americas.• Few slaves went to New England.

Middle Atlantic ColoniesNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

• Rich soil & mild winters allowed for better cash crops than New England.• Cash crop = a crop that is raised to be sold for

a large profit (wheat)• Nickname “Breadbasket Colonies”

• The Middle Colonies had a diverse population: Germans, English, Dutch, Irish, African, French • There were slaves AND

free Africans.• Quakers also settled here

(religious group who believe in nonviolence.• William Penn, a Quaker

founded Pennsylvania• Different religions

accepted

William Penn

The Southern ColoniesVirginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland

• Jamestown = first English colony to make it• Long growing season = ideal for cash crops like

tobacco, indigo, rice • Cotton not central to economy until cotton gin in

1793

Indigo

• Africans had experience growing rice so they were made slaves along the coast.• The decedents of

coastal slaves are called the Gullah.• Can be found along

the Georgia and Carolina coats.• Gullah culture: food,

crafts, folktales, language, etc.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXLdSOfxrFg

Gullah baskets

• A plantation economy developed in the south – large farms called plantations were self-sufficient.• Plantations required a large

number of workers.• Enslaved Africans made up

the labor force• Planters tried to make

Native Americans slaves• Diseases killed many• Knowledge of where to

escape

• Slaves often suffered from cruel treatment and overwork.• Harsh punishments

• Olaudah Equiano was a former slave whose life story was published in 1789.• Kidnapped at age 11• “Iron Muzzle”• Sold several times”Olaudah Equiano

• Powerful planter class developed.• Political /

economic power• SC rice planters

were some of the wealthiest people in the entire world in the 1700s.• Small farms had

trouble competing.

•More education = more ideas• The Enlightenment was an intellectual

movement that took place in the 1700s and spread the idea that reason and logic were the basis for knowledge.• Previously people looked to religion for all

answers.

Changes in Society

http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=Enlightenment

• The Great Awakening was a religious movement in the 1730s-1740s which stirred up religious enthusiasm! • Traveling ministers preached, and large crowds

gathered.• New churches were established .• Concept of different religious ideas

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