The American Pageant: Food In Colonial America

Though, the plantation colonies didn’t not always abide by this lesson, and often cared more about their money than they did about the food they needed to survive. At the same time, they were still able to survive and have enough food to sustain themselves unlike the people of Jamestown, showing that they learned where the line between need and want was. The American Pageant provided as a main source of evidence from this financial point of view. Page 36-37 paragraph 4 gives the first piece of evidence stating, “Carolina prospered by developing close economic ties with the flourishing sugar islands of the English West Indies...They also established a vigorous slave trade in Carolina itself.” These are a few of the financial support systems

But rice was grown in Africa, and the Carolinians were soon paying premium prices for West African slaves experienced in rice cultivation...By 1710 they constituted a majority of Carolinians.” So, rice was also another main factor in their finance, showing how important agriculture was to the people, and also how important wealth is, which hasn’t changed from Jamestown, but people aren't starving and doing nothing about the demand for food. The last piece of evidence is from page 67 paragraph 2 where it states, “Profit-hungry settlers often planted tobacco to sell before they planted corn to eat.” Therefore, like in Jamestown money was more important than the food they needed, and in this case tobacco was the cash crop; but it also did not get bad enough for people to eat one another, and use other non-food animals as food. So, they focused on their economic state and improving it, as well, as keeping the things they need to survive in

History repeated itself, and the colonists took over the Native Americans land, forcefully. On page 37 paragraph 1 of The American Pageant it states, “In 1707 the Savannah Indians decided to end their alliance with the Carolinians and to migrate to the backcountry of Maryland and Pennsylvania, where a new colony founded by Quakers under William Penn promised better relations between whites and Indian. But the Carolinians determined to ‘thin’ the Savannahs before they could depart. A series of bloody raids all but annihilated the Indian tribes of coastal Carolina by 1710.” Here the cruelty of Jamestown is magnified, because this particular group of Indians simply wanted to leave and live a better life, but the Carolinians couldn’t allow it and instead reacted but attacking them for no real reason, truly showing the things learned in Jamestown. From the same textbook page 39 paragraph 9 stated, “These colonies were in some degree expansionary. ‘Soil butchery’ by excessive tobacco growing drove settlers westward, and the long, lazy rivers invited penetration of the continent-and continuing confrontation with Native Americans.” The colonies have progressed a lot since Jamestown, the main drive is still money though the people are also focused on obtaining more land, which will lead to more money, but things are still the same as well, in the sense that the colonists will do anything to get the land they