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Title: Social Studies Chapter 5


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Social Studies Chapter 5
  • Lesson 1

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Vocabulary
  • Indentured Servant-a person agrees to work for
    someone for a set period of time (usually 5
    years) in exchange for paying for their
    transportation to the colonies. Works toward
    their freedom.
  • Slave trade-buying and selling of enslaved
    (slaves) people
  • Artisan-a worker with a special skill
    ex-carpenter or a shoemaker
  • Huguenots-settlers to NY from France

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Why did people come to NY?
  • Dream of buying land
  • Religious freedom
  • Finding a Job

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Who came to New York?
  • British-British were from England, Scotland
    and Wales.
  • French-Huguenots settled in New Paltz
  • Germans settled in Dutchess County
    Rhinebeck

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Others that came to New York
  • Indentured Servant
  • Slave
  • Colonist paid for trip
  • Servant promises to work for a period of time (5
    years) - Eventually was set free
  • Worked hard in cities and farms
  • Purchased just like property
  • Usually had no hope to be free
  • Worked hard in cities and farms

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New York had a Mix of Cultures
  • Languages
  • Foods
  • Ways of building houses
  • Customs
  • Music
  • stories

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Video on Indentured Servants and Slaves
  • http//www.learn360.com/ShowVideo.aspx?ID348396

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Examples of cultures
  • Dutch Ice Skating
  • Huguenots Stone Houses
  • English Tennis

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Slavery in NY
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Slavery Expands
  • 1664
  • 1764
  • 700 Africans lived in NY
  • Many of them were free and owned land
  • 20,000 Africans lived in NY
  • Many of them were enslaved (slaves)

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Why did Slavery expand
  • The Slave Trade
  • The buying and selling of slaves

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Jobs the Slaves did
  • Did many of the same jobs Europeans did
  • Became artisans-someone with a special skill
  • Men were Carpenters, shoemakers, plowed fields,
    cut wood
  • Women worked in homes- cooked, made clothes

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Escaping Slavery was Dangerous
  • Freedom meant escaping
  • Escaping was dangerous
  • Rewards for capturing slaves
  • Slavery was dangerous because
  • Returned slaves were punished harshly
  • Slaves would try to escape to the land of the
    Native Americans. THEY WERE WELCOMED THERE.

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Slaves Revolt
  • In 1712, Slaves revolt in NYC
  • Set fire to a building
  • 21 slaves were captured and executed
  • A result of the slave revolt was
  • This caused people to begin speaking out against
    slavery
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