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Colonial America's Economic Motivations and Social Impact

Explore the economic motivations behind colonialism in America such as mercantilism, indentured servitude, and the plantation system. Understand the social impact of the Triangular Trade Route and the forced labor of Africans. Learn about the different types of colonies and the reasons that brought people to the new world.

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Colonial America's Economic Motivations and Social Impact

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  1. Unit 1 Part III The American Colonies

  2. Warm-up 8/30/2012 • Would you willingly leave your home to start a new life if the government did not respect your basic rights? Explain why.

  3. What is a colony? • A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere

  4. What is mercantilism and how did it motivate colonialism? • Theory that a country’s power depended on its wealth • Encouraged countries to export more than import • Colonies where a source of raw materials for the mother countries industries and markets for finished products • Hurt colonial economies.

  5. Joint Stock Company • Colony in which investors could have part ownership and share in any profits • Virginia, North and South Carolina

  6. Proprietary Colony • Colony owned and controlled by an owner • New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts

  7. Royal Colony • Colony owned and ruled by the King • Eventually all the colonies were reclaimed by the King

  8. Charter • Written document granting land and the authority to establish a colonial government

  9. Where was the first permanent English settlement in North America? • Jamestown, Virginia in 1607

  10. For what reasons did people come to the colonies?

  11. Economic Opportunities • Potential to acquire land and wealth • Cash Crops – agricultural products that could be sold (i.e. tobacco) • Indentured Servants – people who promised to be servants for a time in exchange for passage to the colonies

  12. Forced • Africans were enslaved to be cheap labor • Plantation System – agricultural system in southern colonies for mass producing cash crops • Middle Passage – the journey from African to the Americas

  13. Triangular Trade Route • The Pattern of trade between Africa, Europe and the Americas

  14. The Triangular Trade Route • From Europe to Africa – alcohol and iron products (weapons) • From Africa to the Americas – African men, women and children • From the Americas to Europe – tobacco, rice, indigo, rum, and other raw materials

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