THIS IS HISTORY QUESTIONS ! PLEASE HELP !! :) 1) Why did slavery start in the colonies?

2) How were slaves brought to the colonies?

3) What types of jobs did slaves do in each colonial region: New England, Middle and the South?

4) Why were the jobs in each region different?

5) Why were slaves important to the colonial economy?

6) What difficulties did slaves face?

7) What alternative to slavery do you think the colonists could have used to solve the labor shortage?

1. Slavery started in the colonies to produce cash crops like tobacco and cotton.

2. Slave where brought into the colonies via the slave trade triangle.

3. New England: Fishing and boat work, later on in time they would in the factories. Middle: Farming mainly. South: All farming, most products where cotton and tobacco.

4. The jobs where different because of the environment. It is impossible to farm in New England because of the soil. South climate was great for cotton and tobacco.

5. They where important because the slave where the backbone of the economy, take them away and it would take forever to find enough workers to make the same amount of money.

6. Hunger, harsh working conditions, no education, and no family.