Colonial+America

Colonial America



media type="file" key="The Navigation Acts Music Video for Social Studies! [www.keepvid.com].mp4" width="300" height="300" These students didn't get all of their facts right. The navigation acts were created after England didn't pay close attention to the colonies. America began trading with other countries and made a profit because of how much the other countries were willing to pay compared to England's prices. England didn't like that the colonies were making a lot of money and getting power let alone the fact that England wasn't making as much money as they could. The navigation acts controlled who the colonists could trade, sell to and buy from (primarily England). If I were them I would get a timeline of the events and make sure that whatever happened happened at the right time. Without a correct timeline of events you can't know as much as possible about the historical time.

Slavery In America Video __**CCQ:**__I thought tobacco was a brown leaf. Why is it that in the picture it's green? I never knew that America harvested rice, I always associate rice with China. Do we still get our rice from America? Or is there not enough room left? I would also have to guess that rice doesn't make as much money as other crops.
 * __Main Idea:__**From the start of America Slavery was embraced and used to boost the economy and profit of the colonies and England.


 * //__Triangular Trade:__//**A trade route originally between America,Europe, & Africa but later Europe was removed.The ships that traveled it traded goods and slaves.

__**Northern Colonial Economy**__ __Main Idea:__The Northern Colonies made more money by growing crops and fishing, and then trading with countries. __CCQ:__ //"Whales provided oil for lamps as well as materials used in perfumes, candles, and women’s corsets."(pg. 78)// Do we still use whale oil for products or is it 100% outlawed to hunt for whales? Can you use the oil from a dead whale and sell it? I feel that whale oil would be a lot of money now adays considering how hard it is to get some. This reminds me of the show whale wars because without the whaling industry back then we probably would be able to hunt for whales today. __CCQ:__//" The number of fur-bearing animals soon declined. Colonists turned to other resources, such as timber and fish."(pg 78)//When did they start hunting for fur-bearing animals again? Did they push some animals to extinction? Some of the animals around back then aren't around today.



[|alexander.carstensen] the students didn't get all of their facts right. the navigation acts were created after England didn't pay close attention to the colonies and their progress. The colonies started trading with other countries and England realized that the colonies were making too much money and they wanted to control who they sold to so that England would be the one making a profit. if i did a project like this i would have gotten a timeline of when these events happened instead of reading one source. without a correct timeline of the events that happened you can't know as much as possible about the topic as you could.
 * re: Your responses to last night's video**

Does it change my opinion that there is historical proof that he ws born in South Carolina? Ity does a littrle because he may have heard a story from someone and wrote it down but I don't think he ever took the middle passage. I think it should because I have just been given proof that something never happened.


 * 1) The fact that he bought and sold slaves means he was a complete hipocrit. How could he do that to people who shared his pain? Hiw did he get money to buy the first slave? Why would anyone allow him to buy and sell slaves? I thought slaves couldn't own property?