Name:___________________________________
Date:_________________ Period:____
The Southern Colonies: Plantations and Slavery
Directions: Using the information the text provides - ​Work with a partner to complete the 2nd half of the
organizer below. You will be reading pages 119 - 123 and 109-113 in the textbook. You will use the text to
answer the following questions in complete sentences. You will also be responsible to write a definition for
the vocabulary and identify key individuals/events in the left column.
Vocabulary
Main Idea
Indigo -
1. What two factors in the South allowed plantations to thrive?
The
Plantation
Economy
(pgs.119
-120)
2.
Eliza Lucas
According to the text, what made the transporting of crops?
1. According to the passage, who was the first group of laborers
comprised of?
The Turn
to Slavery
(pgs. 120
- 121)
2. What changed in the labor system after the 1660s?
3. Why was it easier for white servants to leave?
William Byrd II -
1.Why were slaves from West Africa sought? What can you infer about
slaves from West Africa from the passage?
Plantation
s Expand
(pg. 121)
US History 2, Ms. Joyner & Mr. Quinn
Name:___________________________________
Overseer -
Date:_________________ Period:____
1. According to the text, what did slave labor allow for?
2. Planter Class ----> more money__________________
---->more __________ -----> meant _______________
The
Planter
Class
(pg. 121
-122)
___________________________________________
3. The planter class developed into
Stono Rebellion 4. What key factors did their wealth allow them to take control of?
1. Who were overseers? What role did they serve?
Life Under
Slavery
(pg. 122)
2. What lines in the text tell you of the treatment slaves received?
What type of conditions did they endure?
1. What were three ways that slaves fought against their
enslavement?
Resistanc
e to
Slavery
(pgs 122 123)
2. According to the text, what were slaves codes? Why were they
developed?
US History 2, Ms. Joyner & Mr. Quinn
Name:___________________________________
Date:_________________ Period:____
What type of economy developed in the New England colonies because of the the climate, resources
available and people’s way of thinking?
US History 2, Ms. Joyner & Mr. Quinn