1. Regional Economies Develop
Essential Questions:
In what ways can geography lead to political, economic, and cultural conflict?
Can a nation respect regional differences and create a national identity at the same time?

2. How does where you live affect your everyday life?
Think, Pair, Share
How does where you live affect your everyday life?
(Describe at least 3 ways your life is affected)

3. What are the themes of Geography?
Location
Region
Place
Movement
Human-Environment Interaction
Open your text book to page xxx.
Page xxx in the Americans; Page SH24 in World History

4. Which themes are highlighted?
Themes in Geography
Location
Region
Place
Movement
Human-Environment Interaction
Answer Geography Skillbuilder #s in Binder.
Which themes are highlighted?
Turn to Pages

5. Geography Spotlight (pg. 60-61)
How did differences temperature and precipitation affect the growing season in each region?
How might the length of the growing season and the quality of the soil affect the economy?
Differences in:
Temperature
Precipitation
Soil

6. Geography Spotlight (pg. 67)
Temperature
Precipitation
Growing Season
Soil

7. Differences Among the Colonies
Some slavery
Answer questions 1 – 4, 7 and 9

8. Visual Summary, pg. 92

9. Key Terms cash crop plantation indentured servant Slave entrench

10. Slavery in the South: 1650 – 1750
What were the main reasons that English colonists turned to African slaves to fill their depleted labor force?
Economic
Socio-cultural
From “Economic Development in the North and the South: 1650 – 1750”

11. Key Questions Why African slaves as opposed to Native American slaves?
How did the decline in indentured servants affect the price of indentured servants?
What made slaves a good investment?
What “ideas” did many white colonists have about Africans?
How did those “ideas” help whites justify the use of Africans as slave labor?

12. Reasons Demand for African Slaves began to Rise
Southern farmers needed more workers to keep up with rising demand for their produce
They tried to enslave Native Americans but that did not work because
they refused to learn English farming methods
they knew the land too well – could easily escape
There were less indentured servants, which made them more expensive (law of supply and demand)

13. Reasons Demand for African Slaves began to Rise
African slaves were expensive too, but they worked for their entire lives – which made them a better investment than indentured servants.
Whites convinced themselves that dark skin was a sign of inferiority
Whites assumed Africans were used to performing hard labor in hot climates

14. Triangular Trade
Answer questions 1 – 5 and 7

15. Slavery and Tobacco Describing Trends
How would you describe the trends in American tobacco imported by England between 1619 and 1762?
How would you describe the trends in slave imports to Virginia from 1619 to 1762?

16. Recognizing Relationships
Between which two years did tobacco imports increase the most?
Between which two years did the number of enslaved persons imported to Virginia increase the most?
Based on the information in the two graphs, how would you describe the relationship between the slave trade and the production of tobacco?

17. Turn to page 75 Making Connections
How could the production of tobacco have increased so dramatically in the late 1600s, before there were many slaves to work in the fields? In other words, who was working the fields?

18. The Northern Economy,

19. Growth of the Factory System

20. Let’s review the economic trends we’ve seen so far . . . .
What’s happening in the North at this time?
1650
1750
1861
Civil War Begins
What’s happening in the South at this time?

21. The Cotton Gin
page 215

22. The Cotton Gin Create a Cause and Effect Chain
Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin (1793)
Cleaning cotton is now faster and easier
At the same time, what is happening to the demand for cotton in the North? Why?
Page 215 – 216

23. Let’s review the trends we’ve seen so far . . . .
What’s happening in the North at this time?
What’s happening to the Northern economy at this time?
1650
1750
1861
Cotton Gin (1793)
Civil War Begins
What’s happening in the South at this time?
What happens in the South as a result of this?

24. In what ways did the Northern economy help perpetuate the dependence on slave labor in the South?