1. Chap 3 Sect 1
Main Idea – The Economy of the Southern colonies is dependent on labor intensive cash crops
Key Terms – Cash Crop, Indentured Servant, Gentry, Back Country Farmer, Tenant Farmer, Plantation, Middle Passage, Subsistence Farming, Royal African Company, Slave Code, Bacon’s Rebellion**

2. Tobacco and Rice and Indigo… what the heck is Indigo????
Cash Crop
Crop grown as a money making venture
3 Cash Crops in the South
Tobacco – VA, MD, NC
Rice – SC, GA
Sugarcane fails – rice doesn’t
Slaves from the Mende (Rice Coast)
Indigo – SC
All very labor intensive to harvest
Plantations located near water – why?

3. Slaves Social Structure in the Southern Colonies Indentured Servant
Gentry
Back
Country
Farmer
Tenant Farmer
Indentured Servant
Slaves

4. Who is who?????
Gentry – wealthy, landowners, plantations, slave owners
Back Country Farmers – Former Indentured Servants, not much money, subsistence farmers
Tenant Farmers – work someone else’s land
Indentured Servants – Agree to work for period of time in exchange for trip to America
Slaves – Property – no rights – Slave Code

5. Gentry wants to stay on top
Gov. Berkeley of VA - laws to benefit Gentry
BCF not allowed to go west into native lands
Nathaniel Bacon
Gentry
Wants more land
Takes the side of the BCF

6. Revenge of the Pig!!! Bacon’s Rebellion - 1676
Bacon leads BCF against natives, then gentry
Burns down Jamestown
Bacon dies in swamp
Rebellion Fails !!!
So why even talk about it ??????
Because….

7. Long-term effects of Bacon’s Rebellion
Gentry do not want another rebellion
Indentured Servants eventually get set free
Become BCF
May rebel again
Slaves never set free
No Indentured Servants – Slave labor instead!!
Slavery becomes part of the Southern economy

8. Slavery becomes a business
Royal African Company
Middle Passage
Slave Codes