The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. ... Sam Adams and John Hancock were able to escape and the local militia was able to hide much of their ammunition and weapons.
Mountains -South America’s primary mountain system, the Andes, is also the world’s longest. The range covers about 8,850 kilometers (5,500 miles). Situated on the far western edge of the continent, the Andes stretch from the southern tip to the northernmost coast of South America. There are hundreds of peaks more than 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) tall, many of which are volcanic.
Rivers- South America has three important river basins: the Amazon, Orinoco, and Paraguay/Paraná.
The Amazon River basin has an area of almost 7 million square kilometers (2.7 million square miles), making it the largest watershed in the world. The basin, which covers most of northern South America, is fed by tributaries from the glaciers of the Andes. Every second, the Amazon River empties 209,000 cubic meters (7,381,000 cubic feet) of freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean.
Plains-A coastal plain is an area of low, flat land next to a seacoast. South American coastal plains are found on the northeastern coast of Brazil, on the Atlantic Ocean, and the western, Pacific coast of Peru and Chile. The coastal plains of northeastern Brazil are extremely dry. The Brazilian Highlands act as a wedge that pushes moist sea winds away from the coastal plains.
<u>Planters </u>
1. Had lots of money and slaves and grew cash crops
2. Products produced cotton
3. Owned 20 or more slaves
4. Lived in plantations that could be used to grow cash crops, which was all in the south.
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Yeoman Farmers
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1. Stayed to themselves. Grew livestock and crops that would keep them alive and would sell some of what they produced
2. Produce food and a little cotton
3. Owned 1 or 2 slaves
4. Lived in non slave territory north of the Ohio River, but must of them stayed in the south in the upcountry and the eastern slopes of the Appalachian from the Chesapeake through Georgia and the western slopes of the mountains in Kentucky and Tennessee, the pine covered hill country of northern Mississippi and Alabama.
<u> The Free African-American farmer
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The African American farmer is a rare breed in the United States. The loss of landownership and farming operations has contributed to the poverty of many rural communities in the South.
Farming is no longer a toiling-behind-a-mule-and-a-plow venture but rather a technical and managerial occupation—one which, despite many odds, some African-Americans choose.
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