Colonial+America

Colonial America

This video was pretty accurate. One thing that was not accurate was when they said 3/4 of the crew on colonial ships were British. ALL of the crew had to be Brittish. Other than that the video was good :)

Calum's Thoughts They said they lived happily ever after. They did not.

Notes on P. 80-81


 * Main idea: Cash crops grown in the south were very important to colonial trade.
 * tobacco, rice and indigo were the three cash crops.
 * there were more slaves in the south because farmers neeeded more workers on plantations.
 * some farmers chose to export meet, fruit,wheat and veggies.

CCQ's
 * Why did some farmers choose to export meat and fruit instead of tobacco and rice? there was more money in those exports.
 * I bet the Brittish were mad that America had these cash crops.

From left to right: Indigo Plant, Rice Plant, Tobacco Plant I picked these pictures because these were the cash crops in the south.

Notes on P.78-79
 * Main idea: Agriculture was the main economic activity
 * farmers in new england because the weather was unpredictable and the soill was thin and rocky.
 * coastal city were big on ship building.
 * small companies developed.
 * needed crops to make money.
 * The port cities of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia were thriving centers of trade.

CCQ's
 * I think the south was doing better than the north.

[|kristenleonard10] I disagree because the whole point of the Navigation Acts was to keep America under England's control. It wasn't ill-conceived. It was a great plan for the British, but not for the Americans.
 * re: CCQ's on Colonial America**

[|kristenleonard10] I think they didn't pay the slaves so they wouldn't lose any money. The slaves were forced to work and if they didn't they were sometimes killed and personally I would rather work for no money than get killed. || [|kristenleonard10] Dan i like how you said: "I don't believe that the idea of "You bought it, you can do whatever you wish" is ETHICAL, but it was accepted as the norm back then." I agree that it was wrong, but thats just how it was. Good job :) || media type="custom" key="6995953"
 * || **re: Responses - Why didn't they pay them?**
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Q: Olaudah Equiano's book may be a lie, does that matter?

A:It doesnt matter if the book that Olaudah Equiano wrote was a lie because it helped free the slaves. It showed people that if a slave can write a book he is human being.

In a way it was a bad thing that he was a slave trader because he made other people's lives miserable and it was selfish that he used the money to buy his freedom. In a way it was good because if he never bought his freedom he would have never wrote the book and there might have been a possiblility that slavery would have ended later.



I have many thoughts about Olaudah Equiano. I think he was a jerk for selling slaves. I also think that he was selfish because he used that money to buy his freedom. I think that he was clever though because he found a way to get his freedom. Equiano was brave to write his book because he could have been punished. Writing this book was a clever way to get people to realize that slaves were people too. So even though he did a bad thing he did a good thing too. I think that he was a big reason slavery ended.