american history chapter 3, section 2
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The Agricultural South
Chapter 3, Section 2
Southern Life
• Profitable crop that saved Jamestown:
Tobacco
• Cash crop: a crop grown in large quantities primarily to sell
Southern Life
• Tobacco is a labor-intensive crop– Originally enslaved natives, but this proved
too difficult
1. Knew the land and could escape
2. Dying from smallpox
Southern Life
• Began enslaving Africans– From 1690 to 1750:
# of African Slaves in Southern Colonies
13,000
63,000
113,000
163,000
213,000
1690 1750
Year
# of
sla
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Line 2
Line 3
Southern Life
Plantation Owners
Free white men
Indentured servants and women
Slaves and natives
The Slave Trade
• Triangular trade
• Middle Passage
Slave Resistance
• Ways that slaves resisted their owners:– Faked sick– Broke tools– Worked slowly
Slave Resistance
• Stono Rebellion: a group of S.C. slaves gathered weapons and rose up against owners; many Africans were killed whether they were involved or not
– Began a crackdown on slaves
Resources
• Slavery• The Slave Trade, “Amazing Grace”• Slavery in Pictures
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