Angel Dimal Conor Kinley Cora Stevens Elisa Daguin Ken Zeng
Table of Contents Introduction...............................1
Glossary.......................................12
Daily Life.....................................2
About the Author.......................13
Village Structure........................3 Crops............................................5 Slaves...........................................6 Famous People............................7 Cited Sources..............................10 Index............................................11
Introduction The southern colonies consists of 5 states, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. In this book you will learn about different topics in the southern colonies such as daily life and crops.
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Clothes: In the colonial days, people couldn’t buy any clothes since there wasn’t too many shops so they all had to make there own clothes. In
Work:
the colonial days, all of the farmers had to wear loose
In colonial days, woman had to work
clothes made from old cheap fabric so that it would be
at home and did things like caring for there
comfortable to work in. Wealthy people wore fine fabric
child, preparing food, knitting and most of all, doing
to impress other colonial people but since their
laundry. When men work, some of them were farmers
clothes were to fancy or tight, they were hard for all of the wealthy people to work in.
Houses:
and they all had to grow crops and try to build new homes, barns and other kinds of buildings. While men
In the colonial days, people had to live in small houses that had roofs that were arched with wooden frames covered in bark. About sixty people lived in wooden longhouses and
and woman , children had to work with them also like for example, girls helped woman with there chores and and boys help men with crops.
some people hung up woven mats and wood screens for separating some rooms. They use to live in houses made of logs or stone but they decided to use bricks
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Farms
Village ~ structure
A normal village or plantation usually has the farms near a lake or a river. They do this so shipping is easier. Also so plants like rice can thrive.
Slaves
Grains of rice
The slaves houses were near the farms so they could get there quicker. Even though the slaves worked from dawn till dusk the villagers wanted them to get more work done.
Village Layout
A small Village
The layout of a village is simple. The farms are on the outside, the slaves huts are near the farms, the villagers are in the middle, and the leaders mansion is in the center of the whole village. Slave hut in a field
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A small colonial dog running in a field of wheat
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When the settlers first came to the South, they soon found out that the land was rich and fertile, perfect for growing crops. The people grew cash crops, and crops for themselves. Tobacco, corn, rice and indigo were the most common cash crops.
The southern colonies depended on agriculture as much as they needed food and water. Indigo was most likely the colonist’s best source of money. It was discovered by Eliza Lucas (see page 6 for more). Without their crops, the southern colonies might not have lived.
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Slavery In the South
The slaves in the South were treated very poorly. Slaves were sometimes asked to sleep on the cold dirt. The colonists thought the slaves were dumb, but they were actually smart. All of the slaves were from different places, so they did not know how to talk to each other. Mostly, they spoke in English. Some slaves also invented a new language called “Gullah�. In the north, slaves used machines. In the south, slaves were used for crops.. Some slaves told other people about their homeland. They shared their culture with the U.S.A. Some slaves made instruments from animal skin.
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Pocahontas, born in 1592 Virginia, the official mediator for the Powhatan tribe and the English settlers. Pocahontas was only 10 when the English settlers arrived on the Powhatan’s land. English settlers had soon built a little of their own, called jamestown. When the settlers finished building the Powhantans and the English settlers started fighting over land. It quickly became winter and the English were starving to death. Luckily Pocahontas was friends with a few of the English settlers, so Pocahontas persuaded her dad (which was the chief) to help the English. friends. One of Pocahontas’s friends was a man named John Smith, some people believed that Pocahontas saved John Smith’s life. Pocahontas eventually moved to Jamestown to stop the Powhontans from fighting. A year later Pocahontas married John Rolfe, a tobacco farmer. During the year Pocahontas gave birth to their son, she was only 19. Pocahontas went to England in 1616. During the trip back to Jamestown, she became very ill. When they arrived Pocahontas died at 21 years
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old. We will always remember her. Her legacy will live on forever.
James Oglethorpe was sent by king George II to liberalize modern day Georgia. A long time ago what now is modern day Georgia was a place where people who were in debt went. When the people arrived in Georgia there were sent to jail, because they broke a law and you could never get out until you could pay the money back. Oglethorpe heard of this,and thought but how could you get the money back if you were in jail ? So he came up with an idea to make modern day Georgia into a place where people who were in debt could start a new life or beginning. In 1731 James Oglethorpe told king George II his plan. King George II thought this was a good idea, because he thought that the people there could help protect the English empire. So he ordered James Oglethorpe to do it. James Oglethorpe and 114 other people set sail and landed in America on January 1733. We will always remember our founder of Georgia, James Oglethorpe.
James Oglethorpe
James Oglethorpe
James Oglethorpe had so many debts in Georgia from his loans that he had to go back to England in 1743
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney Eliza Lucas Pinckney, was a business woman that made the indigo sales go through the roof. Eliza Lucas was born on december 28, 1722 in Antigua. Eliza Lucas was the person with the most successful indigo crops. What was her secret? No one knows for sure but what some people think is that Eliza had found the perfect seed to grow in Carolina’s climate. Her father sent her many different kinds of indigo seeds. She experimented with the different kinds of indigo for three years, until she found the perfect one. Another reason for Eliza’s success was that at that time the English were buying very high-priced indigo from the French. Because the English and French were rivals, the English were very happy to buy from an English colony. So Eliza was able to make a lot of money and, indigo became the number two cash crop of the Southern colonies. Besides her amazing indigo sales Eliza had also done some other amazing things. For example, Eliza took charge of Wapoo plantation and 20 other slaves at the age 16. Another amazing thing she did was teach her younger sister and two black children how to read and write by herself. Eliza Lucas became ill and died in 1793. In 1989 Eliza Lucas Pinckney was put into the South Carolina Business hall of fame. Eliza Lucas was one of the most successful business woman ever to live!
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney
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“Oglethorpe, James Edward� The World Book Encyclopedia, 1993
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Index Agriculture - pg 4 Clothing - pg 2 Daily Life - pg 2 Food - pg 2
Pocahontas - pg 7 Slaves - pg 5 Village Structure - pg 3 Village Structure Map - pg 4
Games - pg 2 Lucas, Eliza - pg 9 Oglethorpe, James Edward - pg 8
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Glossary Climate- weather. Debt- to owe money. Fertile- cash crops or indigo. Indigo- a plant used to make dye. Liberalize- make somewhere or something free. Plantation- place where people grow crops. Rival- an enemy. Thrive- to grow very well.
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About the Authors Ken Zeng was the person who wrote the slavery page and the glossary. He attends Shanghai American School. He lives with his family in Shanghai. Cora Stevens is the author of pages 7 to 10. She is a 10 year old girl that lives in Shanghai, China and goes to SAS. Cora loves painting, P.E, and rock climbing. She has a little sister, a mom and a dad. She also has a dog and her name is Ria. Angelica Dimal is a ten year old girl in 5th Grade. She was born in April 8, 2003 in Brunei, Thailand. She lives with a Filipino and Australian family. She goes to SAS (Shanghai American School). Elisa Daguin is the author of page 4 with Cora. She is part French and part Chinese. Her hobbies include art, animals and reading. Elisa is in fifth grade at Shanghai American School (SAS) and she hopes that you liked this book. Conor Kinley is the one who made village structure he is 10 years old and he lives in china. In his spare time he likes to draw maps like the one in village structure
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