1. Warm Up – Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Describe your understanding of the African slave trade.
When did it start?
How did it start?
What was the process for getting a slave from Africa to the New World?
How did slavery impact both the New World and Africa?

2. Tobacco Economy in Colonial Virginia

3. Cash Crops
In 18th century Virginia, planters grew some type of cash crop that could be sold for money or credit to buy tools, livestock, and household goods.
Prior the American Revolution, tobacco was the crop most Virginians grew and sold to English and Scottish merchants.
Tobacco required a good deal of labor and required attention year-round.
Originally, indentured servants were used, but by 1700 planters turned to enslaved people of African origin to work the fields.

4. Today’s Learning Objective
Students will understand the colonial economic life and labor systems in the Americas and will be able to explain how the plantation system and cash crops contributed to the institution of slave labor.

5. Vocabulary
Working with your seat partner, take 10 minutes to read the Tobacco Production Vocabulary assignment and complete the worksheet.

6. Review of Answers

7. Tobacco Economy Video
Watch the video on the Tobacco Economy to answer the following questions and complete the activities.
Tobacco Economy Video