mexico
Subject:
US History [1]
Tags:
mexique [2]
Dela Allohn
AP US History
April 19, 2012
Period 5
APUSH Outline
Cotton Gin
Bacon’s Rebellion
Triangular Trade
Slave Codes
Indentured Servants
Thesis: During the late 16th century, the expansion of slavery became inevitable as the influx of minorities provided a means of efficiently cheap labor in the cultivation of much needed natural resources in order to maintain the circulation of the economy.
Triangular Trade
-Economic cycle between the New England rum shipped to Africa in exchange for slaves which carried over to the West Indies for the exchange of molasses.
- Agriculture became the dominating industry
2. Slave Codes
-Rules officiated for the control of slaves