colonial+america

Colonial America



1.The students did get their facts about the navigational acts correct. 2.I would improve their work by organizing their facts differently. I would first tell the people involved in the navigational acts then tell the facts. 3. I find that tell the names of people involved helps the reader get a beter understanding of the subject

homework:9/21
 * __SLAVERY IN AMERICA__**


 * main idea**: Slaves were first brought to jamestown, Virgina just 12 years after it was founded. They started to grow tobacco plants, soon people became addicted to tobacco. The colonists had a popular demand for tobbacco and decided to emport it to other countries. The plantations the tabacco was grown in required more african slaves to make it. In spanish lands towards the south, slaves worked on large sugarcane plantations.

-It's very surprising the colonists relied on the slaves so much after just 12 years in a new settlement.
 * CCQ's**- If slaves worked on the plantations and wealthy people, when did the colonists start trading slaves?

a route to recieve slaves. Since in American Settlements trade came from two sources England and Africa, it forms a triangle thus its name. Main idea- the products from the southern colonies impacted colonial trade greatly. They wanted more money so they made more indigo and cotten.
 * Triangular Trade-**
 * __DO NOW-9/22__**

north main idea- the slaves were forced to get fish and other things to make more money.

media type="custom" key="6998243" I chose the pictures that i did by looking at the atmosphere of the environment. I searched for depressing, sad, painful scenarios to choose the pics. The map i put in there was just to simply show the triangular trades' stop points of the slave trade.

do now: 9/24 My opinion did change, if he never was on the boat then he could have never been this descriptive. My opinon shouldn't have changed scince either way the way the slaves were treated could have been that bad.

WOW...did he actually sell slaves to buy his own freedom