Kayla Gildore Mrs. Hollowell APUSH 3 8 December 2016 Ch 16 essential questions Questions Notes Cotton-based society and economy The South was a cotton-based society. Many plantations were located in the South and cotton was their most common cash crop. This cash crop made their society also a cotton-based economy.…
The cash crops ended up turning the plantations into a system that was ran on large commercial agriculture and its dependence on enslaved labor. A lot of the white individuals that were located within the South were not slave owners, however they supported “peculiar institution”, which was a phrase used in place for slavery. This assisted with the whites not having to utilize the word slavery but still believing and sharing that slavery is what made the South extremely unique. The whites during…
The Farmer was an essential trade and occupation in all of the colonies, but especially in the Middle Colonies where the soil was fertile and weather was mild. New England farmers raised corn, pumpkins, rye, squash and beans. The Middle colonies raised so many types of crops, especially wheat, they were called the 'breadbasket. The Southern colonies and their massive plantations raised tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain and…
What is meant by the term “plantation colony”? What were the plantation colonies? Why did they rely on indentured servitude? Define indentured servitude.…
Slaves in the 1800s were treated not as people, but as property. They would use them to help cultivate cotton in the plantations. The slaves were given enough food to keep them alive and working and shelter that was nothing beyond a shack next to the plantations. There would be slave trades or auctions out in public. They would trade slaves from plantation to plantation just as you would with cattle.…
In contrast, the use of African slaves differ in the New England colonies. There were fewer slaves as a result of the climate and no large plantations. The growing season was short and no profitable crops grew in harsh climate. Masters and slaves usually lived under the same roof. I would consider this to be a “society with…
In some cases, few slaves even became plantation owners themselves, employing indentured and convict labor, white as well as black. On the plantation, both black and white laborers were exploited, looked down upon, and rewarded and punished all equally. It was in the later half of the 1600's, there were no laws in the northern colonies that recognized black and white laborers. Those who owned black and white laborers saw no basic differences between each other as human beings. Their obvious differences in skin color and physical features, culture, and language did not matter to the slave owner as long as their property worked.…
Indentured servitude and the slavery system both played a major role in the development of colonial economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Prior to the French and Indian war, the American colonies mostly ruled themselves and were in a relatively good economic situation. Despite their successfulness with political issues, the colonists desperately needed help with labor as there was so much work that needed to be done to the land. The need for labor was fulfilled in two ways; indentured servants and African slaves. While the to groups were treated differently and received different levels of respect, both worked the land and ultimately helped the colonists economy to boom.…
They were given passage to the new world in exchange for 7 years of strenuous physical work. Unlike indentured servants, slaves could never be free. Neither indentured servants nor slaves could control who purchased their labor. They were often bought and sold several times, and the work was very difficult.…
The plantation was twelve hundred and sixty acres with hundred and fifty slaves leaving almost nine acres to each slave themselves. Many “Negros” as they were named, declared that they were free and that they were going to leave as soon as they were ready. The Southern, United States, suffered tremendously traumatic events were society eventually had to go through to have at the end an answer and a reconstruction of the south and more importantly of the citizens. Many slaves took abundant time to recuperate their freedom and citizenship.…
During the Civil War African Americans were still slaves and treated as so in certain states. Frequently living in poverty, treated as property, and never paid a single dime. Furthermore, in the Reconstruction era former slaves were faced with racism and sharecropping. In addition, contracts were created amongst a former slave and an owner to allow both parties to receive some form of profit. In the case of the Cooper Hughs and Isham G. Balley, the Hughs received less than half the cotton and one third of the corn.…
This was the time where the southerners utilized the plantation, the…
Primary Document Analysis: “The Plantation is Very Weak” The author of this Primary Source is Richard Frethorne. They were addressing this document as a letter to their parents about the many hardships they were experiencing in a plantation, and they were present at the event and a participant. This was written at the time of the event as well, and it is not a recollection of past events. The author is an Englishman, presumably young, and is at a failed plantation site in or near Jamestown.…
Triangle Trade The Triangle Trade was a system of trading goods in Britain for other goods and shipping it to African countries where tribes would trade products with ship captains for captured slaves. The slaves were then brought to Southern American where they were auctioned off and eventually ended up in the colonies. The ships would then pick up colonial products and take them to Britain, where they were taxed, picking up other products and heading back to African countries to start the process over again.…
Slavery is defined as involuntary subjection to another or others with complete ownership and control by a master. Consequently, in all 13 colonies slavery was legal and acceptable and regarded as positive amongst white southerners. Life as a slave was grueling unimaginable work. Slaves worked sun up to sun down under watchful eye of the overseer and master. Slaves wasn’t allowed to take a break unless the overseer of the plantation allowed a break.…