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· Men were 6:1 · Most children made it to adulthood and knew grandparents · More than 1/3 of females were pregnant when the wed · Displaced farmers worked with the growing tobacco industry · Indentured servants were a large population. Even after their term was up they still needed to find jobs after because of how little they were paid · 400,000 out of 10 million slaves went to America · By 1662, slaves could not be free and they became property · Africans brought a lot with them to the U.S. such as jazz and bongo drums · New England was more preferred because of the weather and land · Woman had the job of child bearing · Divorce was rare and women did not have many rights · Those who committed adultery had to wear an “A” out of cloth on the clothes · Towns of 50 or more families had to provide an elementary school · Puritans established Harvard. · Puritans ran their own churches and democracy in congregational church · Thomas Jefferson said the Puritan town meetings were “the best school of political liberty the world ever saw” <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· 1662 the “half-way covenant” <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· From that time onward, women made up most of the Puritan congregations <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· A witch hunt in 1692 led to the death of 20 people and 2 dogs <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Aimed mostly at property owning women <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Eventually ended in 1693 the governor ended it because his wife was accused <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Pardoned those being convicted <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· 20 years later, legislators annulled the convictions of the witches and made reparations to their heirs <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The land in New England was bad and the Indians were blamed <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Colonists decided it was their job to “fix” it by tilling it and building roads <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· New England flourished as live stock was brought in. Towns across America were modeled from New England <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Women, no matter what race had to care for the children and cook and clean <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Men cleared land and cut firewood <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Children helped with the tasks as well and schooling <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The wealthy felt they were superior and made laws on what the poor could do and not do.
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