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American Life in the 17th Century:

1676- Frustrated frontiersman Nathaniel Bacon leads a revolt against aristocrats and Indians. Early 1700's: Legal differences are made between white and black slaves. All blacks and their children are made slaves. In the North: Population explodes, huge families are valued and stay together longer than most Southern families Late 1600's: With hunts become popular New Englanders: become known for their hard work, street smarts, and frugality
 * Although dangerous to live in, the Chesapeake bay was great for growing tobacco.When more and more tobacco is planted, indentured servants are brought from England to work.
 * Fearing more mutinous whites, the colonies cause the African slave trade to swell.
 * Soon, African and Colonial cultures mixed, sharing music, language, traditions, ect.
 * Black slaves are more manageble than whites
 * Southern Heirarchy: Great Planters, then Small Farmers, then landless whites, then slaves
 * Towns are orderly and religious, with emphasis put on education
 * Democracy was practiced in Town Meetings in New England
 * 1636: Harvard, the first American college ,is founded
 * Puritan churches start the Half Way Covenant in order to increase church attendance
 * Land owning women are targeted, as well as people in the new non-Puritan economy
 * After a while, with hunting is outlawed, and reparations are payed to the affected families
 * Colonists introduce the concept of land ownership to Natives, claimed they were "improving" the land to make way for cultivation
 * Excessive farming creates soil erosion and climate change in the North
 * Hunting, fishing, and logging become staple industries in new England.
 * New Englanders view themselve's as God's Chosen People, and consider themselves better than the Southerners
 * Equality and democravy find new meaning in the Colonies