Colonial+America

Colonial America

They did got MOST facts right. Towards the end they said and they all lived happily ever after. They did not.

Kirsten's Answer:one thing that was not accurate was when they said three fourth of the crew on the ship had to be british all of the crrew had to be british.

Do Now: 9/22/10


 * Farmers in new england couldnt grow their crops all year but people in the southern colonies could grow them all year.
 * after the navigation acts coastal cities were the center of shipbuilding
 * englands crop methods didnt work on New Englands thin and rocky soil.
 * they had to harvest crops to make money.

C: I dont know how 33,000 people worked as shipmakers. Q:Was shipmaking the career for people in the colonies? Q: How old were you when you started to working back then?

9/17/10 h.w CCQ: How long did it take England to notice that the u.s were sending illlegal ships to trade to other countries?

I disagree because england orignally wanted more power over the american colonists not because of salutary neglet. ALSO it was not ill conceived because england had some deep thought into the navigation act. 9/22/10 h.w Dan I liked Your opening sentence because it is hard for me to imagine it because i am think through a mordern view point. i think they didnt pay them because its like having a televison that you use every day and paying it for letting you watching it. they thought of slaves as objects.

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Olaudah Equiano. is he lying or is he telling the truth I think it doesnt matter because it showed slave owners that they are human and they are capable of learning a laungage. My opinion did change because he wouldnt sell his people away for money if he was a slave. he had to of been born in the colonies to have the stomach to sell his own people away. H.W 9/25/10-Olaudah Equiano peice Olaudah Equiano was born in Essaka, an Igbo village in the kingdom of Benin, in 1745. He was brought over to the colonies as a slave. His slave name was Gustavus Vassa. He had his master read him the bible and he would memorize how the vowels sounded and were written and basically taught himself english. Then to buy his freedom he bought and sold other slaves and then published a book called it "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African." Many people didnt beileve his story i was one of them but this is what he claims he did and say.