September 22nd 2008
SOUTH
- Since the Southerners relied on their plantations of their tobacco and rice, they needed slaves to do the field work. Creating wealthy slaves holder planters with thousands of salves kind of society.
- The Chesapeake tobacco planters organized their slaves into gangs, supervising them closely, and kept them in the fields all day long. To make their plantations more self-sufficient, the slaveholders trained 10% of their slaves as blacksmiths, carpenters, coopers, or as other skilled artisans. Whipping was considered as a form of correcting behaviors of the slaves or the members of their household.
- Southern society order: wealthy white males with BIG plantations (land) with A LOT of slaves, farmers with small plantations and SOME slaves, NO land white males, SMALL landowners with NO slaves, and slaves.
- Tobacco and rice were sold and traded with the Brits and other foreign countries, while they would import finished products and furniture.
MIDDLE COLONIES
- The Middle colonies were the pluralistic societies from the start, however, immigrants from Scotland, Germany, and Ireland have leaded to the ethnic and religious complexity.
- Most of the immigrants were Catholics (the puritans do not want them in New England). They arrived as families or the 'redemptioners,' a new form of indentured service (family could stay together).
- They were known as the Breadbasket of America since this these colonies grew excellent wheat. They also built their own ships to carry them abroad. More jobs were more available in the cities and rural area would hunt and raised cattle.
NEW ENGLAND
- They were the Puritans and were not friendly to immigrants. It was the land of farmers, fishermen, lumberjacks, shipwrights and merchants and still considered itself considered itself more pious than the rest of the British Empire.
- Their population and life expectancy declined due to all kinds of diseases from Europe, especially smallpox and diphtheria.
- Yankees shipped fish and forest products to the islands in exchange for molasses, where they used as a sweetener ( cheaper than sugar) or distilled in to rum. Rum then became the major exports along with cod and lumber in New England.
- West Indian planters were alarmed by the cheap French molasses, urged Parliment to stamp out New England's trade with the French West Indies. Parliment passes the Molasses Act of 1733 which place a prohibited duty of six pancw per gallon on all foreign molasses.
- They owned and built more ships than any other colonies combined and imported many British products. The grain trade with the Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake colonies was not profitable. Settlers there eagarly bought rum, and a few slaves from Yankee vessel that stopped their way back from the West Indies. Newport became involved in slave trading along the African coast.
- Since the Southerners relied on their plantations of their tobacco and rice, they needed slaves to do the field work. Creating wealthy slaves holder planters with thousands of salves kind of society.
- The Chesapeake tobacco planters organized their slaves into gangs, supervising them closely, and kept them in the fields all day long. To make their plantations more self-sufficient, the slaveholders trained 10% of their slaves as blacksmiths, carpenters, coopers, or as other skilled artisans. Whipping was considered as a form of correcting behaviors of the slaves or the members of their household.
- Southern society order: wealthy white males with BIG plantations (land) with A LOT of slaves, farmers with small plantations and SOME slaves, NO land white males, SMALL landowners with NO slaves, and slaves.
- Tobacco and rice were sold and traded with the Brits and other foreign countries, while they would import finished products and furniture.
MIDDLE COLONIES
- The Middle colonies were the pluralistic societies from the start, however, immigrants from Scotland, Germany, and Ireland have leaded to the ethnic and religious complexity.
- Most of the immigrants were Catholics (the puritans do not want them in New England). They arrived as families or the 'redemptioners,' a new form of indentured service (family could stay together).
- They were known as the Breadbasket of America since this these colonies grew excellent wheat. They also built their own ships to carry them abroad. More jobs were more available in the cities and rural area would hunt and raised cattle.
NEW ENGLAND
- They were the Puritans and were not friendly to immigrants. It was the land of farmers, fishermen, lumberjacks, shipwrights and merchants and still considered itself considered itself more pious than the rest of the British Empire.
- Their population and life expectancy declined due to all kinds of diseases from Europe, especially smallpox and diphtheria.
- Yankees shipped fish and forest products to the islands in exchange for molasses, where they used as a sweetener ( cheaper than sugar) or distilled in to rum. Rum then became the major exports along with cod and lumber in New England.
- West Indian planters were alarmed by the cheap French molasses, urged Parliment to stamp out New England's trade with the French West Indies. Parliment passes the Molasses Act of 1733 which place a prohibited duty of six pancw per gallon on all foreign molasses.
- They owned and built more ships than any other colonies combined and imported many British products. The grain trade with the Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake colonies was not profitable. Settlers there eagarly bought rum, and a few slaves from Yankee vessel that stopped their way back from the West Indies. Newport became involved in slave trading along the African coast.
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