EH-Chapter+4

CH4. · Slave labor was a very important element to the southern economy. · Sickness killed thousands of settlers and took off 10 years of life expectancy. · There were few families due to death. · Settlers went crazy in order to plant tobacco. · “Head Right” system= person who paid passage of laborer gets 50 acres of land. · Indentured Servants had their passage paid in exchange for years of work to gain freedom. · Once these servants were free, many had to continue working because they had nothing. · Many young men were frowned upon because they had no land. · Nathaniel Bacon led a thousand Virginians in a “raid” against William Berkeley. · About 10 million Africans were shipped to the New World. · Slaves accounted for about 50 % of the Virginia population. · A few early Africans gained freedom and even owned slaves. · Early slave laws made slaves and their families property for life of their white owners. · Slaves were not allowed to be taught to read or write or be converted to Christians. · Blacks began reproducing and creating their own culture in America. · A slave revolt occurred in New York City in 1712 that killed many whites and lead to an execution of 21 blacks. · 70% of leaders in Virginia came from families in Virginia before 1690. · There was a strict social scale in the 1700s. · Waterways were the main transportation routes and roads were poorly constructed. · Colonists in New England were in better health than in the south. · Families began to migrate instead of just one person. · Mothers could expect to give birth to at least ten children. · Married women were allowed title to their own property and could inherit their husband’s property if he died. · New marriage laws were beginning to be made to protect women and their husbands. · Divorce was very uncommon in Puritans. · Laws demanded that split couples reunite. · Abandonment and adultery were the most “acceptable” means for divorce. · If women committed adultery they were shipped and forced to wear the letter “A” on their clothes forever. · Community was very strong in New England villages. · Towns began requiring schools. · Harvard College is the oldest corporation in America est. in 1636. · Public meetings were the first from of government. · As more people began expanding the Puritans began loosing their religious authority over them. · People began only committing to half of the Puritan ways in the Half-Way Covenant. · Church Membership began spreading and widening throughout the widening settlements in the North and South. · In Salem, twenty women and two dogs were hung because they were believed to be witches that bewitched young girls. · Witch hunts were not uncommon in Europe. New England’s landscape was very rocky amount the soil. · Nutmeg was big in Connecticut. · New England was less racially mixed than the South. · Settlers believed Indians wasted the earth because they did not use if for its full potential. · The introduction of animals may have caused a change in climate and changed the landscape. · A majority of colonists were farmers with continuous cycles. · Land was mostly cheap in America but started to be hard to come by. · Massachusetts passed a law in 1651 that made it illegal for poor people to wear gold or silver lace. · Democracy started to grow in America.