Colonial+America

9/20/10 Homework
====1. The video has the facts that I knew about the navigation acts and more. The fact that the crew had to be english and that the english limited the colonists trading oppurtunities I knew, but the fact that there where three seperate kings and the last one enforced it so much that the colonists lost there right to protest and talk about politics I did not know.====

__**Slavery Video**__
====2.The main idea of the video is that slavery was a huge part of the early american economy.They where primarly brought over to ameica to work on tobbaco fields. They worked on rice, cotton, tobbaco, and indigo fields. There was a huge boom in slave importation when the smoking habit grew. In 1750 almost 200,000 black slaves were living in the american colonies.====
 * ====Couldnt the americans get there own people to do there work and pay them money so that there economy could grow like that instead of unpaid slaves?====
 * ====Even today Tobbaco is one of the largest companies in america

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The navigation acts video
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**__CCQ__**
====For what reason did the colonists loose their right to talk about politics? Was it so that the colonists would stop a revolution, because that failed. Also wouldnt the british get more money if they just let the colonists trade with others getting money from the import and exports?====

[[file:Northern Colonial Economies.docx]]
==== The main idea of this section is that the industries in the colonies boomed depending on their location. With the boom in industry the boom in the economy came also. For instance the northern colonies traded lumber because they had many trees around, the southern colonies traded crops because there climate allowed a good surplus of crop, and the slave traders went to Africa because that is where the slaves came from. ====

Southern: Farmers sold their cotton and indigo to make money
Do Now 2: Southern Economy:This is a crop like those grown and sold in the south

Northern Economy:This is the lumber indusrty it was a main part of the northern economy

9/22/10 HW

Triangular trade is when three ports trade with each other. The atlantic slave trade is when slaves cash crops and lumber war traded.

9/23/10 Disscussion of Why not pay the slaves? Whats the point free labor is in the benefit of the owners why pay someone your money when you can just keep it all for yoursel

Slavery Slideshow

9/24/10 Olaughdah might have never even gone on the ship did this change your opion, should it

This did not change my opion of how bad it was but it does change my opioion of how it actually might be. This shouldnt though because his description might be veryclose to whatit was actually like.

He bought and sold slaves! He was a Slave Trader!!!! How can he live with himself when he was a slave wanting freedom and he was a slave trader