Oklahoma Social Studies 5.C.2.2

5.C.2.2 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 5.C.2.2.A

  agricultural exports as affected by climate, physical features, and natural resources

• 5.C.2.2.B

  a labor system utilizing indentured servants in various occupations

• 5.C.2.2.C

  a growing reliance on enslaved labor considered essential to the plantation system.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students compare how climate, land, and resources shaped work and exports in New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. They describe jobs done by indentured servants and explain why southern planters increasingly used enslaved labor.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students connect New England's rocky soil and forests to fishing and timber, the Middle Colonies' fertile land to wheat, and the South's warm climate to tobacco and rice. They name jobs indentured servants did, such as farming and carpentry. They explain how plantations came to depend on the forced labor of enslaved people.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think all three regions grew the same crops or that every colony had large plantations. Some confuse an indentured servant's set term of work with slavery, which was forced, lifelong, and inherited.

04

How to Assess It

On an exit ticket, ask students to name one export and one geographic reason for it in each region. Then ask them to name one indentured servant's job and explain how plantation labor differed.

1. 01

   Give groups region maps and crop, soil, and climate cards to sort, then ask them to explain which exports each region could produce.

2. 02

   Ask: Who benefited when southern plantations increasingly used enslaved labor, and how did that labor differ from an indentured servant's work term?

3. 03

   Run a matching relay: teams place wheat, tobacco, rice, fish, and timber cards under region headings and explain each placement.

4. 04

   Show bags of rice and wheat flour; students locate the colonial regions that grew those crops and explain why the land suited each.

• 8.C.1.1

  Analyze the political and economic climate in the British colonies on the eve of the French and Indian War.

• 5.C.2

  Compare the developments of the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies.

• 7.C.7.3

  Evaluate how the major sectors of economic activities contribute to the development of a country or region:

• WG.C.6.3

  Compare contemporary patterns of industrialization and development in selected regions of the world.