The 13 Colonies
The 3 northern colonies are referred to as the ______________ Colonies.
New England
List a cash crop from the Southern colonies.
Tobacco, indigo, cotton, rice, wheat.
Most of the slaves came from this place.
West Africa
Two ways slave were sold:
Scramble and auction
True or False: The government was all the same throughout the 13 colonies.
False
Two examples of economic activity in the New England colonies:
lumber, shipping, whaling, fur trade, farming, fishing
Describe two ways West Africans became slaves.
Prisoners from battles, to trade for guns and other items, traders would pit one village against another to gain prisoners.
What did the slave stand on as they were auctioned off.
Auction block.
Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia are all:
Southern Colonies
What were farms called in the Southern colonies?
Plantations
This part of the trade route was miserable for the enslaved Africans as they traveled from Africa to the colonies.
The Middle Passage
What were two problems for slaves as they adjusted to their new lives.
Language barrier, loss of family, hard work in all weather, cruel punishment, crude homes.
This crop allowed colonists to make a lot of money.
Cash crop
The people from this settlement disappeared mysteriously, leaving the settlement deserted.
Roanoke
Describe the conditions on the journey to the colonies.
cramped and crowded, sickness, little food, no privacy
How did slaves cope with their lives as slaves?
Sang songs, escaped, head down and push through, break tools, fake illness, suicide.