The document summarizes the development of colonial life in the Southern colonies. It describes the plantation economy based on cash crops like tobacco in Virginia and Maryland and rice in South Carolina. Indentured servitude was initially used but slavery grew as the labor source. Africans were brought to the colonies and the slave trade expanded significantly. The triangular trade route brought slaves from Africa to the Americas and back to Europe. Slavery became a formal, racial institution through various slave codes that denied rights to African Americans.

1. Chapter Three: Colonial Ways of Life
Section One: Southern Colonies
A. The Southern Economy
a. Mainly based on _______________________.
b. Cash crop – a crop mainly grown to be sold for _____________.
c. In Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, the main cash crop was
_______________.
d. The growth of cash crops led to the rise of ___________________.
e. Plantation – a large ______________ usually growing only one crop.
f. Plantations required many ____________________.
g. In the early years, most laborers were _________________
servants - people who signed a _________________ saying they
would pay their way to America by working for 5 to 7 years.
h. Their needs would be provided by the land __________________.
i. In South Carolina, rice and ____________ (used to make blue dye)
were the main crops.
j. Many planters who came to South Carolina were from the
____________________, where slavery was common.
k. Many Africans already had experience ____________________
rice.
l. Therefore, most of these planters chose Africans as their source of
labor and slavery began to ____________________.
B. Southern
CHUNK #1 Turn to page 86 and 87. Read Southern Society then complete the graphic
organizer below.

2. a. 1. The Planter Elite a.k.a. (gentry)
i. The smallest group was made up of ________________ land
owners.
ii. They had a great deal of social and
_______________ influence.
b. Backcountry Farmers (yeomen)
i. Many were former indentured servants who had
_______________ land.
ii. Small farms practicing _________________ farming (farming
only enough crops to feed their own families).
c. African Americans and poor whites
i. These groups made up the _______________ portion of
Southern Society.
C. Bacon’s Rebellion
a. Governor William Berkeley thought ____________ privileges should
be reserved for those who owned property.
b. Backcountry farmers were _______________ by this.
c. Nathanial Bacon, a wealthy land owner, sided with the
__________________ farmers.
d. He organized a militia and after attacking Native Americans who had
attacked his plantation, he ______________ power and charged
Berkeley with corruption.
e. After months of battling, Bacon died while in hiding. His army fell
________________ without him.
f. Bacon’s Rebellion convinced many wealthy planters that the best way
to keep Virginian society ______________ was to allow backcountry
farmers to own land.
D. Slavery in the Colonies
a. Indentured servants began to ______________ and slavery began
to increase.
b. Reasons:
1. Slaves did not have to be _________________.
2. Land became __________________ and most English settlers
were not willing to be indentured servants.
3. The _______________ African Company was established.
i. This was an English company dealing with the _________ trade.
ii. English settlers could ________________ slaves more
easily.

3. E. The Slave Trade
a. Most slaves were taken from ____________ Africa.
b. About 1/3 died on the journey across the Atlantic called “The ___________
Passage”.
c. Disease and ________________ were huge problems aboard slave
ships.
d. Slaves were sent from Africa to North America, South America and
the ________________.
F. Growth of Slavery
a. Slavery grew very ______________.
b. The first Africans came to _______________ in 1619 and were
actually indentured servants.
c. As slavery began to grow it became more ________________.
d. It was recognized by _________________ in Maryland in 1638.
e. By 1660, laws were passed to lower the ______________ of
Africans and deny them the same rights as whites.
f. Slavery also became ____________________.
g. Eventually these laws were grouped together into __________ codes.
h. Slave Codes - sets of laws to govern slavery and ______________
the rights of African Americans.
i. Examples: could not hold property, could not ___________ in
court, could not have guns.