Life in Colonial America Chapter Two, Section Two 2-2 Pages

Vocabulary  Indentured servants: worked to pay for their passage to America  Slave Codes: strict laws governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans  Subsistence Farmers: they produced just enough to feed their families  Proprietary Colony: owned by an individual or small group of people

The Colonies Grow  Commercial New England Long, cold winters made subsistence farming shipbuilding  Colonial Trade Triangular trade  Sugar, molasses from West Indies to colonies  New England made rum  Shipped to Africa  Africans to West Indies

The Colonies Grow  Growth of the Middle Colonies More fertile soil than New England Cash crops  Plantation Life in the South Tobacco, rice, indigo Used indentured servants Enslaved Africans  Slavery in the Southern Colonies Inhumane triangular trade: Middle Passage Slave Codes enforced by overseers  Criticism of Slavery Puritans, Quakers, Mennonites condemned slavery Started the Civil War

An Emerging Culture  The Great Awakening 1720’s: religious revival New religious groups, education, equality, challenge authority  Education in the Colonies 1647: Public Education Law in Mass. Harvard, Yale, William and Mary Benjamin Franklin  scientist  The Press in America Newspapers, almanacs, books

Colonial Gov’t  Self-Gov’t Charter Colonies: granted by English monarch Proprietary Colonies: owned by one person or group Royal Colonies: direct English control Only white landowners could vote  British Colonial Politics 1707:England + Scotland=United Kingdom 1750: GB=trading empire  Colonial Resistance Navigation Acts: controlled sales and tax Started smuggling