Do Now What were the main provisions of the Navigation Acts? Complete the following graphic organizer on mercantilism in your notes:

The Slavery Problem Differences in the Northern and Southern Economy

Essential Questions What were the differences in the Northern and Southern Economy? Why was slavery a major source of labor in the South? What is triangular trade? Explain each leg of the triangle. What is the middle passage? What are cash crops?

Northern Colonial Economy Limited Farming – Bad Soil and Long Winters Limited Labor Force – All in the family Forced into manufacturing YES THE NORTH DID HAVE SLAVES!!!

Logging

Shipbuilding

Fishing

Trading

Southern Colonial Economy Climate varies farming styles – Cash Crops- a crop that is grown for profit Tobacco- Chesapeake and North Carolina Rice and Indigo- South Carolina and Georgia – Labor Intensive – Plantations- large farms with large slave populations – Small farms with yeoman farmers are rare

Differences In your notes, with a partner, summarize the differences in the northern and southern economies

Plantations

Slavery

Triangular Trade Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved between England, the American Colonies, and Africa Middle Passage: harsh voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean (middle leg of the triangle)

Triangular Trade

Middle Passage

Slave Restraints

Check Out Questions What is meant by Triangular Trade? Why did agriculture in the middle colonies differ from that found in New England? What was the Middle Passage?

A Slave’s Journey Olaudah Equiano – Born in western Africa – Sold into slavery at age 11 – Sold to a British Naval Officer and worked on ships – Earned enough money to buy freedom in 1766 – Traveled the world speaking out against slavery

Equiano