Colonial+America

Colonial America

I believe that these students had accurate facts on the Navigation Acts. They explained what mercantilism is and what England did to gain their wealth from the colonies. I believe that they could improve this video by adding what the colonists thought about the navigation acts, about how they felt and what they did in reaction to the acts. In the video, all they included was facts, but no point-of-view thoughts from the colonies.

Tiffany Wong: I think the students got most of these facts correct. This is because the students had some different information compared what I learned in class. This might even mean that the book may be wrong too. Not everyone has all the accurate facts, unless you have the primary artifacts. I think the students can improve their work by including some opinionsof some colonies during the Navigation acts. This way we can understand their point of view and how they felt about it.

__**Southern Colonial Economy**__



CCQ: What was so successful about Eliza's indigo crop? CCQ: What did she do to make this new crop so profitable? Connection: The slaves that work on plantations reminded me of the book Nightjohn, where slaves are forced to work Main Idea: Southern colonies were famous for their trade in tobacco, indigo, and rice, known as cash crops.

Northern Colonial Economy

Main Idea: Farmers in New England were not able to grow good crops because the weather was unpredictable, so it was hard to grow anything. //﻿// //**Why didn't they pay them?**// I believe that they didn't pay them was because they thought that slaves were worthless and didn't have to get paid. Once the white colonists bought the slaves, the slaves became the colonists' property. They believed that there was no reason to have to pay for what they owned, which is why slaves probably weren't paid. Slaves were cheap, and the white colonists were lazy cheapskates, which is another reason why they decided to make slaves work.
 * England's crop methods didn't work on New England's thin and rocky soils
 * After the navigation acts coastal cities were the center of shipbuilding
 * They need crops for money.

__**CCQ's on Colonial America**__ I disagree because the Navigation Act caused many problems, not only for the colonies. Life now might have been completely different if this act never existed.

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//**Why do you think colonists felt the need to use slave labor? How would you convince someone who is a slave owner to give up their slaves? Remember many people who owned slaves did not like the practice, but felt like they HAD to have slaves...how do you convince them otherwise?**// I think that the colonist felt the need to use slave labor so that they could make money. The colonists profited by using the slaves to do the work that no hired person would do. This way, they could make money without having to do the unwanted jobs, by having others do it for them. I understand that slaves were very useful, but there was no reason why slaves hated to be treated so harshly. Slaves ARE human beings and they should be treated like everyone else, and NOT tools! Colonists should think about how it is to be a slave, living in such harsh conditions, and working from dawn to dusk every single day. If they could understand this, then they would probably find another way to do these unwanted jobs, where it wouldn't cause as much suffering.

It doesn't matter whether it was a lie or not because even if he didn't go through with this torture, it doesn't mean that other slaves haven't gone through with it before. Even if this book was a lie, there are some true facts about the slaves. If he did lie, he might have overexagerated or not exagerate the conditions enough. We don't know for sure, but there are some things in his book that were true, which makes this real. All Equiano wanted to do was to show everyone that slaves are human, not property.

It doesn't change my opinion about this. Although he was a slave trader, he did this so that he could help save other slaves, as a free man and an abolitionist. The fact that he wrote this book to spread the word about how terrible slavery was meant that he had good intentions to abolish slavery. In the end, as an abolitionist, he was able to help Britain abolish slavery, which is what he always wanted to do.

I believe that although Olaudah Equiano was a slave trader, he was a great man. He changed the history of slavery. He has done so much to abolish slavery, after he bought his freedom. He may have caused some people misery, he he saved more people in the end. I don't believe that Equiano has done anything wrong. If he hadn't done any slave trading, slavery might have gone longer than it had already.