September 4, 2013EQ- How did mercantilism change the goals of the colonies?

Agenda:1.SLO2.Collect American

Colonies Project3.Review Quads and

Unit 1 Questions4.Mercantilism and

the Middle Passage

Table of Contents:20. 13 Colonies Chart21. Colonial Quads22. Chapter 1 Review Questions23. Unit 1 Review24. Mercantilism and Crackdown25. Triangular Trade and The Middle Passage26. The Middle Passage Experience

Mercantilism• It’s all about the Benjamins.• Country’s ultimate goal is to make money from their colonies• Colonies find anyway they can to make

money:o New England- fishing, shipbuilding, lumber, livestocko Middle- food, trade/merchants, shipbuildingo Southern- cash crops

• Navigation Acts- colonies can’t sell stuff to other countries without going through England first (England

• has to make money from it!)

Crackdown on Massachusetts

Massachusetts colony wasn’t following the rules and continued to smuggle goods to and from other countries….. England gets mad and King Charles revokes their charter- makes Massachusetts a royal colony under the Kings rule.SO…..1. Massachusetts is no longer a “Puritan”

colony2. Non-Puritans get a say in the gov’t

(Half-way Covenant)

Act it out!• Imagine that you are

o 1. King Charleso 2. A merchant in Massachusetts who works WITH

the Kingo 3. A smuggler in Massachusettso 4. A Puritan

• Create an improv conversation that might have occurred between these four people.

September 6, 2013• EQ- What was the Middle Passage?

Agenda:1. Review (answer in complete sentences on page

27)2. Slavery and The Middle Passage3. The Middle Passage Experience4. Slave Ship Mutiny

Table of Contents: 27. Unit 1 Review

Unit 1 Review1. What was the Virginia Company?2. Which crop was responsible for making

Jamestown successful?3. What were indentured servants?4. Which religious group founded and controlled

the government in Massachusetts?5. What happened in King Philip’s War?6. Why did Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

flee Massachusetts to establish Rhode Island?7. Which colony was formerly known as New

Amsterdam?8. Which colony was founded by the Quakers?9. What did the French settlers do to make

money?10.What was mercantilism all about?11.Why did Massachusetts lose its charter?

Triangular Trade and Slavery pg. 25 in NB

• Because of MERCANTILISM, a system of worldwide trade develops

• Transatlantic Slave Trade aka Triangular Trade

Basic Version

Colonies

Africa

West Indies

Rum and Goods

Enslaved people

Sugar and

Molasses

Called the MIDDLE PASSAGE

Middle Passage• The voyage that brought kidnapped slaves from

Africa to the West Indies and later the 13 colonies• Horrible conditions, beatings, filth, overcrowding,

starvation, suicide- 20% did not survive• Between 1492-1863 25-30,000,000 Africans

taken

The Middle Passage Experience…