Geography
Port Royal Sound and
Beaufort River - sugar,
tobacco, rice and cotton
were grown
Geography
Valley of Mexico had
water systems and fertile
land for maize & beans
Geography
Geography
35 states including the
Sea Islands off the coast of
South Carolina
Geography
Marshes and salt water
creeks - South Carolina
which had magnolia,
orange trees fish, oysters
and crabs
Valley of Mexico is
between the Sierra Madre
Oriental and the Sierra
Madre Occidental
Geography
A volcanic region with
Mount Popcatepetl,
Tlalacs, and Toluca volcanic glass, called
obsidian was used
Geography
Geography
Port Royal and St. Helena
Sound connecting to the
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico is
located to the east
Geography/
Government
Trade routes to Liverpool
England
Geography/
Government
1865 Union General
William T. Sherman
completes his March to the
Sea
Geography
Geography/
Government
San Juan River helped to
connect merchant trade
routes to the coast
Geography/
Government
1521 Spanish conquest by
Hernan Cortez
Geography
Series of islands
connecting together by
rivers, sounds, and creeks
in South Carolina
A series of interconnected
lakes such as: Lake
Texcoco (salt water), Lake
Xochimico (fresh water),
and Lake Chalco (fresh
water)
Government/
Geography
Government/
Geography
Confusion over who owns
the land after Du Pont
comes to the Sea Islands in
November 1861
Land was assigned to a clan
called a calpulli.
Commoners/farmers worked
common land that was assigned
to their calpulli.
Geography
Used marsh grass or mud
to fertilize the land between
crops
Geography
Created aqueducts to carry
fresh water to Tenochtitlan
from Chapultepec Hill to
the west
Government
Government
Capital of Washington D.C
Government
Civil War
Capital city-state of
Tenochtitlan with several
other critical city-states
with their own leaders
Government
Frequent warfare to secure
resources, slave labor,
territory and sacrifice
Government
Government
Divided into three
branches:
Judicial, Executive and
Legislative
A triple alliance was set up
with the three major city
states in the region:
Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and
Tlacopan
Government/
Economics
Cotton & rice are
important exports for the
United States at this time
Government/
Economics
Tributes of maize, beans, cotton
clothing, feathers, jaguar skins,
loincloths and cloaks, deer,
spiders, bees in hives, shells, and
in some poorer areas slaves to
serve the nobility
Government
Government
Constitution - Multiple
government interventions/laws
Fugitive Slave Act 1850 - return
runaway slaves
Dred Scott decision 1857 - no
black person is a citizen
Government
Presidents through this
time were first Lincoln and
then Johnson
Government
Society made up of
citizens, but this does not
include people of color /
Slavery is present at this
time
Did have a legal code of
behavior created by
Netzahualcoyotl, a ruler of
Texcoco:
Treat others respectfully
Work hard
Government
The city-state ruler is called
a tlatoani - Moctezuma II
was the tlatoani at the time
when the Spanish made
landfall
Government
This society was made up
of nobles, army,
commoners, artists, and
slaves
Government
Few slaves got their freedom
before the Civil War. They
could purchase themselves
or their owner could free
them in their will
Culture/Religion
Northern missionaries,
backed by US government
(Secretary Chase), hire
Edward Pierce to oversee the
Sea Islands of South
Carolina
Government
A commoner could volunteer
if they could not provide for
themselves to become a slave
/ children of slaves were not
considered slaves
Culture/Religion
Spanish missionaries in the
region (Cuba) / Led by
Francisco Hernandez de
Cordoba
Culture/Religion
Culture/Religion
Slaves mixed Christianity with
their native African religions
Education/Writing
St. Helena Island
Missionaries teach people
who are black to read and
write while they work daily
on the plantations
Use of ballgames to represent
their religion/mythology of light
verses darkness - Quetzalcoatl
verses his brother Tezcatlipoca
(god of night/jaguar)
Education/Writing
Spanish missionaries recorded
some accounts in a variety of
codices as result of natives
attending Spanish schools.
Example is the CODEX
MENDOZA in 1525
Geography/
Government
Plantation system, where
slave labor would work
under a single owner to
produce crops
Geography/Government
Some slaves worked on small
farms, not all worked on large
plantations, and some worked in
larger cities such as Charleston
where they provided other
service (sailor, seamstress)
Slavery/Economics
Slaves could be purchased
with money at a slave
auction. They were not
used as sacrifice for
religious purposes
Geography/
Government
Created chinampas for farming
that were made from layers of
mud and fixed in place by poles
in the lake
Geography/
Government
Some chinampas were large
floating gardens made from
reeds. They could be 1,000
to 9,000 square feet
Slavery/Economics
Marketplaces to purchase
“bathed slaves” to be offered as
a sacrifice for crops / Looking
for qualities of dance, music
and looks.
Slavery/Economics
Slavery/Economics
Slaves were part of a larger
trade system. Some people
were taken from regions in
Africa
Slaves were gathered from
neighboring city-states or
civilizations within
Mesoamerica