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Life in Southern Society. Southern economy becomes dependant on cash crops like tobacco, rice, and cotton. . The Planter Class. Control political and social institutions in the southern colonies. Become increasingly dependent on chattel slavery.
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Life in Southern Society Southern economy becomes dependant on cash crops like tobacco, rice, and cotton.
The Planter Class • Control political and social institutions in the southern colonies. • Become increasingly dependent on chattel slavery. • Aristocratic and white supremacist establishment.
Triangular Trade • Three way trading process: Merchants carry rum from New England and Africa.In Africa they traded their merchandise for enslaved people, whom they transported to the West Indies and sold for sugar. The sugar was then shipped to New England to make rum.
The Peculiar Institution • 25-30 million people removed from Africa over a 400 year period. • 3 brutal slave societies emerge in the Caribbean, Brazil, and the American South.
Slavery grows in the Colonies • A slave is a person considered to be the property of another. • Demand for labor leads to the enslavement of millions of Africans. • Based on racist ideology. • Slavery in the Americas begins in the West Indies and spreads to Brazil and the American South. • By mid-eighteenth century there were approximately 1.5 white colonists to every 1 slave in the Southern colonies. • South Carolina had a majority slave population. • Slavery was highly profitable.
The Commercial North • Northern colonies develop diversified industry based economy. • Wheat production, harvesting fish, • sawing lumber, shipbuilding, iron production. • Dependent upon low wage labor. • Port cities of NYC, Boston, and Philadelphia develop.
Diversity in the North Influx of immigrants: • German and Irish were two largest groups. • New England was less tolerant and diverse. • Had slaves but far fewer than south.
A culture of tolerance? Why should the Germans be suffered to swarm into our settlements and, by herding together establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them? -Ben Franklin
The Salem Witch Trials • The Puritan New England town of Salem in 1692. • Several women accused of being witches and 19 were hung. • Illustrated the social and religious tensions of the time. • Women accused were often considered “too independant.”
The Enlightenment World is governed by fixed mathematical laws- not chance or miracles. These laws can be applied to how people live within their societies.
The Great Awakening Financial success of the Massachusetts Colony led to a loss of interest in the church. Jonathan Edwards and others sought to revive the original Puritan vision in the 1740s. Brought together Native Americans, African Americans, and women. Encouraged idea that individuals could change things for the better through their free will.
