Bell Work 9-23-13
1. The Virginia House of Burgesses was important to the development
of democracy in the thirteen colonies because it:
a. provided an example of representative government
b. created the first written constitution in America
c. provided for direct election of senators
d. began the process of legislative override of executive vetoes
Answer: a
2. Britain’s mercantilism goal with the colonies was to create a favorable
balance of trade which meant what?
a. Britain would send gold and silver to the colonies.
b. The colonies would provide livestock to Britain.
c. Britain would export more products to the colonies than it imported.
d. The colonies were to increase trade with other countries.
Answer: c
Mercantilism
Related to South Carolina
Agenda
Notes/Discussion: Students will gain understanding of how
South Carolinians used their natural, human, and political
resources uniquely to gain economic prosperity?
Key Focus:
 Rice Cultivation/Indigo Processing
 Slave Labor
 Mercantilism
Student Group Activity: Complete Graphic on SC’s economic
prosperity
Closure: Q & A using whiteboards
Independent Practice: Complete Graphic
Quick Review: Stand-N-Share
The first student and the last
student to stand must tell what
they remember from Friday’s
lesson about Mercantilism
 List as many facts as you can
about Mercantilism.
Previous/future knowledge:
 In
grades three and four, students learned about
the role of African Americans in the developing
plantation economy (3-2.5), trade with
Barbados (3-2.4) and the triangular trade (42.3). Students have also learned about the policy
of mercantilism (7-1.4) in grade seven.
Relevance
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What are you good at?
What are your interests?
How could you use that to
make a living?
Explain how
South Carolinians
used their
Natural, Human,
and Political
Resources
uniquely to gain
economic
prosperity
including the
practice of
Mercantilism
Focus
Statement
Mercantilism
 An
important goal was to make the nation
self-sufficient.
 South Carolina served as both a source of
raw materials and a market for British
manufactured goods.
 The success of mercantilism was partly
judged by whether or not the nation had a
favorable balance of trade. This meant that
the nation exported more than it imported.
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What is meant by a “ favorable balance
of trade?
Answer: Export more than you import
Checking for Understanding
Mercantilism
 Colonies
could be very valuable to the mother
country if:
1. They produced the products needed “at
home”
2. They sold these products on to the
mother country,
3. If they served as markets for the goods
produced by the mother country
Mercantilism
Laws
were established to
control trade
Mercantilism became more
the English policy after 1650.
Mercantilism
 The
British government encouraged the development of new
products such as indigo by offering subsidies (or bounties) to
planters who grew it.
 Both rice and indigo were on the ‘enumerated’ list of products
that could be sold only to England. South Carolina planters
therefore had a secure market in which to sell their crops.
 However the British government did not enforce this part of the
law on Carolina rice, giving South Carolina the economic
advantage of a wider market.
 The British government was lax in its enforcement of most
mercantilist laws (a condition known as salutary neglect) and so
the people of British North America were free to develop their
economies without much interference from the mother country.
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 How
did the British government encourage the development of
new products?
Answer: They paid the planters subsidies
 What did it mean for a product to be on an enumerated list?
Answer: That product could only be sold to England
Checking for Understanding
Explain how
South Carolinians
used their
Natural, Human,
and Political
Resources
uniquely to gain
economic
prosperity
including the
practice of
Mercantilism
Focus
Statement
8-1.5
Explain how South Carolinians used their natural,
human, and political resources uniquely to gain
economic prosperity
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Students will complete the chart to demonstrate an understanding of
how the south and SC gained economic prosperity.
I Do: The teacher will model using informational text to find relevant
information to complete the chart on the economic prosperity of the
south and SC’s.
We Do: Work together finding relevant information to complete the
chart using informational text on the south and SC’s economic
prosperity.
You Do: The students will complete the chart
Students will then share responses
Guided Practice
Natural
Settlement and
Trade with
Barbados
Growing Rice
Growing Indigo
Mercantilism
Human
Economics/
Political
Natural
Human
Economics/
Political
Settlement and Trade
with Barbados
SC traded deerskin
Pine products/ naval stores
(masts, tar, resin, and pitch to
build boats)
Fertile Land produces crops to
trade
Mild Climate
Barbadian settlers – brought
African slaves and plantation
system
SC traded Native American
slaves
Thriving trade developed
Plantation System
Barbadians brought their political
system
Growing Rice
First grown in open field later
planted in field fed by tidal
creeks in the low country
Rivers and streams
Mild Climate
Navigable waterways- Good
Port
Easy to ship goods
Major from 1750-1860
African slaves from Barbados
and Africa – Hard work and
Knowledge of growing rice.
Carolina Gold – Cash crop
Mercantilism/Great Britain placed
on enumerated list- guaranteed
market for rice.
Later able to sell to other countries.
Growing Indigo
Fertile land
Warm climate
Eliza Lucas
African Slaves
Second Cash Crop for South Carolina
Mercantilism/Great Britain placed on
enumerated list- guaranteed market
for indigo.
Mercantilism
Pine Products
Deer skin
Warm climate
Fertile Soil
Rivers and Streams
Raw Materials
Developed the Middle class/
Merchants and sea captains
African slaves – worked to plant
and harvest goods traded with
Great Britain.
Native Americans- Trade/ Deerskin
and Fur
Market for good
SC shipped raw materials
Great Britain sent finished products
Great Britain offered subsides for
growing rice and indigo
GB placed certain items on enumerated
list=
Guaranteed market for colonial goods.
Also limited trade for colonies.
Closure
Using
your whiteboard, explain how SC
used its human, natural, and political
resources to gain economic prosperity.
(ex. slave labor)
Independent Practice
Writing: Imagine that you are a
plantation owner living in one of the
southern colonies. Write a dairy entry
describing your typical day and your
role in the colonial economy.
Materials Needed
 SC
Standards
 Text book
 Informational Text
 Document Camera/Promethean Board
 PowerPoint
 Teacher Created Notes
 Teacher Created Graphic Organizers
 Video Gullah Tales
 Student resource Manuel ( SRM )