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 a.  The Unhealthy Chesapeake  i.  A variety of different diseases limited the life of most people in the colony  b.  The Tobacco Economy  i.  Chesapeake colony had great tobacco cultivation  1. about 1.5 million pounds of tobacco by 1630  ii. indentured servants came to work in the tobacco fields  c.  Frustrated Freeman and Bacon’s Rebellion  i.  1000 Virginians were out of control in 1676 – led by Bacon  d.  Colonial Slavery  i.  Over 10 million Africans travelled in horrible, packed conditions to the New World  ii. Black slaves soon outnumbered whites  iii. Only a few of the earliest African immigrants had freedom  e.  Africans in America  i.  South: hostile climate and tough labor  ii. Chesapeake: less of physical demand; family-life was possible  iii. Slave revolt in NYC 1712: cost the lives of blacks and whites <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> f.  Southern Society <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> i.  No equality between people, poverty, and disease <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> ii. Social hierarchy much more “in place” in South <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> g.  The New England Family <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> i.  Life expectancy of first generation Puritan colonists was 70 <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> ii. Families migrated, not individuals <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> iii. Women married in early 20s and had children every 2 years <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> iv. Women’s economic rights were better in south <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> v.  Children were well nurtured and were expected to obedient <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> vi. New England women were not given property rights because some thought it defeated the purpose of marriage <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> vii. All Puritan laws were meant to defend marriages <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> 1. divorce was extremely rare <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> h.  Life in the New England Towns <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> i.  The expansion of the Chesapeake region was random <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> ii. Towns with 50+ families HAD to provide education <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> iii. ½ of adults knew how to read and write <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> iv. Puritans ran own churches and democracy <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> i.  The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> i.  Half-Way Covenant: agreement between church and adherents to admit to baptism <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> ii. Teenage girls claimed the were bewitched by older women; a “witch hunt” was put into order (Salem Witch Trials) <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> j.  The New England Way of Life <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> i.  The land and climate molded New England life <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> ii. More livestock was brought from England to the settlements <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> k.  The Early Settlers’ Days and Ways <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> i.  Common routine: crops planted in the spring, tended their crops in summer, harvested in the fall, and prepared in the winter <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> 1. Rose at dawn and slept at dusk <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> ii. Women had all of the domestic duties
 * <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore;"> I.  ****__ Chapter 4 – American Life in the 17th Century __**