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1600’s-90% of migrants were from England ½ of those were indentured servants Poor immigrants who traded passage to colonies for 7 yrs of work After 1660-English immigrants start decreasing-England’s Economy gets better, religious conflicts diminish. People choosing to stay in EnglandTRANSCRIPT
3-1 Bellringer What are some reasons why you would
pack up your belongings and move to another country?
List 2 and explain
CHAPTER 3 SECTION 1Immigration and Slavery
Europeans Migrate to the Colonies
1600’s-90% of migrants were from England
½ of those were indentured servants Poor immigrants who traded passage to
colonies for 7 yrs of work After 1660-English immigrants start
decreasing-England’s Economy gets better, religious conflicts diminish. People choosing to stay in England
Scots & Scotch-Irish 3 Waves
1st came from Scottish Lowlands 2nd came from Scottish Highlands 3rd- province of Ulster in Northern Ireland
@ 250,000 Scotch Irish came to colonies Settled in “Back Country” in Pennsylvania
to Carolina
Germans @100,000 Immigrants Mostly Protestant From Rhine Valley in SW Germany War, taxes, and religious persecution sent
Germans to Colonies Pennsylvania was ideal place for
Germans because almost no taxes collected
Slavery in the Colonies 1600’s Indentured Servants used as
labor; late 1600’s a new labor source is needed
In beginning slaves treated like indentured servants but 1705 changed that
1705-Virginia General Assembly-declared all servants imported to be slaves
Transatlantic Slave Trade Most were captured in war or by armed
men Triangular Trade
1st Leg-Europeans traded goods for slaves in West Africa
2nd Leg-Middle Passage-Took slaves from Africa to Colonies
3rd Leg- Traded slaves to colonies for goods and returned to Europe
Slavery in the North and the South
New England/Middle Colonies-small percentage of slaves
South-majority of slaves; worked on plantations growing tobacco, rice, indigo, or sugar
African American population made up large parts of the population in the south
Rebels and Runaways Rebellion and runaways was happening
Largest Rebellion-South Carolina-1739-100 Slaves killed 20 whites before defeat
Maroons-runaways who hid in forests or swamps
Spanish welcomed runaways to Florida To weaken British Colonies
Some Africans obtained Freedom Phillis Wheatley-wrote poems-1st African
American to publish book in 1767-was granted freedom by owner in 1773