slave codes

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• slave codeslaws that set out rules for slaves
  behavior treated enslaved Africans as property
  and denied slaves their basic rights
• racismthe belief that one race is superior to
  another

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Slave Trade

• As demand grew European slave traders set up
  posts along African coast.
• They offered guns and other foods to African
  rulers who brought them slaves.

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Slave Trade

• Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French
  all sent ships with slaves to America.
• called Middle Passage- slave ships travelling
  west across Atlantic from Africa to the colonies
• slaves were crammed into small spaces below deck

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• Imagine that you were a slave
• coming from Africa to the colonies
• in America.
• What do you think the trip across the Atlantic
  would have been like?
• What would go through your mind when you arrived?
  
• Write a story about the journey from the point of
  view of a slave.

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Trade

• imports- good brought into a country
• exports-goods sent to markets outside the country

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Triangular Trade

• Colonial merchants developed many trade routes.
  One route was known as the triangular trade.
• Colonial merchants sometimes defied the
  Navigation Acts by buying goods from the Dutch,
  French, and Spanish West Indies.

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Rice, Indigo, Tobacco
Guns, Cloth
Slaves
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Limits on Liberties of Colonists

• Women had fewer rights than free, white males.
• Married women had fewer rights than unmarried
  women and widows.
• Africans and American Indians had almost no
  rights.

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Great Awakening
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Great Awakening

• In the 1730s and 1740s, a religious movement
  known as the Great Awakening swept through the
  colonies.
• began with powerful ministers.
• led many people to split from their old churches
  and start new ones.
• growth of so many churches forced people to be
  more tolerant of different beliefs

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Great Awakening

• New preachers argued that formal training was
  less important than a heart filled with the holy
  spirit.
• If people could learn to worship on their own,
  they could govern themselves.
• People felt freer to challenge political
  authority.

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Enlightenment

• The Enlightenment was a movement started in
  Europe by thinkers who applied reason and logic
  instead of superstition to understand the world.
• English philosopher John Locke wrote that people
  could gain knowledge by observing and
  experimenting.
• Natural rights and ideas about government
  influenced Jefferson.

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Enlightenment

• Benjamin Franklin demonstrated the spirit of the
  Enlightenment. He used reason to invent useful
  devices and improve his world.