Do NOW!!!
• After taking your seat, take out your
binder and get ready to start working on
your bellringer.
August 27, 2014
7th Grade American History – 2B
Bellringer!
• What system or
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term is this map
portraying?
What is the point
of trade?
Which three
powers are
participating in
trade in this
map?
• Row people, pass the “Fast Track to
America” books down the row
• Complete the document based questions
for the John Smith passage
Document Based Questions
1. In the first part of the passage, what are some
similarities and differences Smith lists about the
Jamestown and England?
2. How did the tone of John Smith’s Tale change after the
colonists’ largest ship left Jamestown to sail back to
England?
3. According to the passage, how would you describe the
relationship between the settlers and the Native
Americans?
4. After being elected to rule Jamestown, John Smith
made the rule: “He that will not work shall not eat.”
What do you think this rule says about life in the
colonies at this time?
Mercantilism
Role-Play
ENGLAND, FRANCE and
NETHERLANDS
ENGLAND, FRANCE and
NETHERLANDS (aka: The Dutch)
• 3 Competing Countries
• All have explorers, who are out looking
around, and claiming land…
• WHAT DO THEY WANT!?
POWER
• How do they get it?!
Make MONEY!
How do we make money?
• ENGLAND, FRANCE and NETHERLANDS
- All have manufacturing (turning raw
goods into finished products) and trade
ships
- ENGLAND makes FURNITURE
- NETHERLANDS makes CLOTHING
- FRANCE makes TOOLS
- All countries, although competing for
trade goods and gold, rely on each other
Let’s Play the Mercantilism Game!
Round 1:
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You have to spend money to make money!!!
Soooo….
ENGLAND pays one gold to create furniture
NETHERLANDS pays one gold to create clothing
FRANCE pays one gold to create tools
• ENGLAND sends FURNITURE and one gold
to NETHERLANDS & FRANCE
• NETHERLANDS sends CLOTHING and one
gold to ENGLAND & FRANCE
• FRANCE sends TOOLS and one gold to
ENGLAND & NETHERLANDS
Review Questions:
• Is anyone making more money?
• How could someone make more money?
• What is interdependence?
SUDDENLY England finds a colony.
• We’ll name the colony NEW England.
(Clever?!)
• Although the colony only has little gold, it
is proven to have raw materials that the
mother country can get cheaply to create
its finished products.
Round 2: English Colonies
Let’s Play!
• ENGLAND sends ONE gold to the colonies for
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raw material
TWO FURNITURES Are then made for that ONE
gold –
THE COLONIES send over a gold and get
furniture.
NETHERLANDS sends over a gold and buys
FURNITURE
FRANCE sends over a gold and buys FURNITURE
Oh Yeah…
• ENGLAND can now also make CLOTHING
& TOOLS because the raw materials are in
the colonies.
• CLOTHING, FURNITURE and TOOLS are
now produced by ENGLAND
• WHO WINS? WHO LOSES?
Review Questions:
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What is a colony?
What is a mother country?
Who wins? Who is benefitting from this deal?
Who loses? What can they do about this
situation to help them make more money?
Why can’t the colonies make their own finished
goods?
Who is dependent on whom in this situation?
ROUND 3:
French and Dutch Colonies
Let’s Play!
• FRANCE and NETHERLANDS like what
England is doing to make money so they
discover their own colonies.
• They are now able to produce CLOTHING,
TOOLS and FURNITURE themselves.
• ENGLAND, FRANCE and NETHERLANDS
now try to compete.
• All have raw materials, manufacturing and
shipping.
Review Questions:
• For what purpose did the Netherlands
(Dutch) and the French want to discover
their own colonies?
Round 4: The Navigation Acts
• England realizes that their profit from their
colonies is being shared with other
countries.
• The English colonies are using French and
Dutch ships to send their goods to Europe
because their ships are cheaper! They are
trying to save $$$$!!!
So English Parliament passed
the Navigation Acts!
– Only allowed the colonists to trade w/ Britain
– Colonial merchants could not send goods to
England in foreign ships (even if the foreign
ships were cheaper)
– Prohibited the colonist from sending certain
products (sugar or tobacco) outside of
England’s empire
Round 5: Now what?!
• Imagine your mother country not allowing
you to make your own trading decisions
regarding YOUR business!
• You have to pay $100 to use English ships
now, whereas you used to only pay $25 to
use a French ship to send your goods to
Europe.
Review Questions:
• What is Parliament?
• Why did they pass the Navigation Acts?
• Who did these acts hurt? Why?
Round 5:
• The Navigation Acts say that you have to
use English ships…
• You feel like you are wasting money!
• What do you do?
Round 5:
• Some colonists ignored the Navigation
Acts and began smuggling.
• How do you feel about the colonists
smuggling?
Review Questions:
• What is smuggling?
• Why did the colonists feel the need to
smuggle?
• How do the English feel about the
colonists smuggling? Why?
• Whose side would you choose?
• Bring materials for project to next class
• Bring red folder!
• Project due Tuesday September 2