Slavery and Triangular Trade Route
How did economic, geographic, and social factors encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between 1607 and
1775? (2001)
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Economic: o Slavery is cheaper than indentured servitude. o Slave Trade. o Tight packing vs. loose packing. o Large Plantations.
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Geographic: o The rise of tobacco o Labor intensive crops o Rice and indigo crops
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Social: Dehuminization o Thought they were ‘saving’ the slaves (education, religion, etc) o Blacks used to be more accepted, this changed o Genteel southern society
Compare and contrast the ways in which economic development affected politics in
Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750. (2005)
• Massachusetts: o Small farm o Merchant trading o Protestantism o Livestock o John Winthrop – city on a hill o Roger Williams – separation of church and state o Massachusetts Bay Company o Pilgrims o Mayflower Compact
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Virginia: o Cash Crops and plantations o House of Burgesses o Bacon’s Rebellion o Slaves – Revolts o No fixed religion o Charter o Virginia Company – more government control
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Comparisons: o Triangle trade
o o o o Mercantilism
Indentures servants
Headright system – work for land
Navigation Acts – 1651
Between 1607 and 1763, Americans gained control of their political and economic institutions. To what extent and in what ways do you agree or disagree with this statement? (1971)
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Solitary Neglect
Navigation Act
Trade
Stamp/tea/impressment Act/Sugar/Currency
Quakers/Puritans/Pilgrams
Native Americans moved off
Virginia House of Burgesses
Cotton/Rice/Indigo/Tobacco
Triangular Trade Route
Mercantilism
First Continental Congress/Stamp Act Congress/Albany Plan
John Rolfe and Pocahontas
“Join or Die”
Proclamation of 1763
Sons of Liberty
George Washington, John and Sam Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, Patrick
Henry
1775? (2001)
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Economic: o Slavery is cheaper than indentured servitude. o Slave Trade. o Tight packing vs. loose packing. o Large Plantations.
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Geographic: o The rise of tobacco o Labor intensive crops o Rice and indigo crops
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Social: Dehuminization o Thought they were ‘saving’ the slaves (education, religion, etc) o Blacks used to be more accepted, this changed o Genteel southern society
Compare and contrast the ways in which economic development affected politics in
Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750. (2005)
• Massachusetts: o Small farm o Merchant trading o Protestantism o Livestock o John Winthrop – city on a hill o Roger Williams – separation of church and state o Massachusetts Bay Company o Pilgrims o Mayflower Compact
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Virginia: o Cash Crops and plantations o House of Burgesses o Bacon’s Rebellion o Slaves – Revolts o No fixed religion o Charter o Virginia Company – more government control
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Comparisons: o Triangle trade
o o o o Mercantilism
Indentures servants
Headright system – work for land
Navigation Acts – 1651
Between 1607 and 1763, Americans gained control of their political and economic institutions. To what extent and in what ways do you agree or disagree with this statement? (1971)
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Solitary Neglect
Navigation Act
Trade
Stamp/tea/impressment Act/Sugar/Currency
Quakers/Puritans/Pilgrams
Native Americans moved off
Virginia House of Burgesses
Cotton/Rice/Indigo/Tobacco
Triangular Trade Route
Mercantilism
First Continental Congress/Stamp Act Congress/Albany Plan
John Rolfe and Pocahontas
“Join or Die”
Proclamation of 1763
Sons of Liberty
George Washington, John and Sam Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, Patrick
Henry