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=Section 2 - The Agricultural South (Sarah Kim)=

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 * ===Natural Environment===
 * The long and deep rivers allowed access for ocean-going vessels
 * Lots of different kind of plantation or land to farm
 * The weather was very good for farming and hunting animal
 * ===Built Environment===
 * Trading System
 * Tobacco, indigo
 * Tobacco made lots of money in North America
 * Political
 * They were self sufficient society
 * Diverse People
 * During 1700's, many European immigrated to North America to start a new life
 * Thousands of Germans came over to the South
 * Raised grains, livestock, and tobacco
 * Some of Scots and Scot-Irish people also came to the South
 * Role of Women
 * Had second class citizenship
 * Had few legal rights
 * They could not vote or preach
 * They were mostly educated in the social graces or in domestic tasks, such
 * Throughout the day, women worked in the bakery baking bread in the hot fire
 * Had to bow to their husband's will
 * African Slavery
 * The Europeans forced the Native Americans to work for them
 * Most colonist thought that the black skin from the Africans were meant inferiority
 * They also thought that they could survive in harsh environment
 * They could easily observed the sun heat
 * Lots of African slaves were working on the Western Indies
 * Then the Europeans decided to take those slaves and sell them to earn the money
 * They thought of selling the African slaves because their population were three times bigger than the White popluation
 * There were triangular trade
 * Triangular trade is the process that the merchants sells the rum and then started to sell the slaves and sold their goods
 * Middle Passage
 * Middle Passage brought African slaves to West Indies and to North America
 * It is the middle leg of the transatlantic trade triangle
 * Which was known as sickening cruelty
 * While the 100s of African slaves had to be in one spot for a lot, lots of them started to die and created diseases
 * Africans life in North America
 * Africans came to North America and they faced with lots of difficult things such as, cultures and languages
 * When they were with lots of different people, they started to build their family
 * African slaves were known as the circular religious dance
 * As the slavery went on, lots of African slaves started to rebel
 * They couldn't stand anymore of the cruel treatments that they are getting even thought they were working hard
 * They held their guns and killed the planter families and marched south
 * When those two side clashed, many Africans died
 * When the fighting didn't worked, they started to runaway from their works.


 * ===Other Issues===
 * Because of the African Slaves, slaves had to face their problems when they came over to North America
 * African slaves started to rebel and get into wars with the Europeans
 * Lots of fighting and killing going on
 * Because there were many people coming into the same land, their culture and the language was the problem