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Chapter 4

· 1619- The first Africans came to North America. · 1623- The population of the of English colonies was 2,000. · Settler life in Chesapeake was extremely hard. · Disease was the main cause of settler deaths. · Chesapeake was the ideal place for tobacco cultivation. · Because tobacco dries out soil, settlers were always looking for new land to grow it in, causing them to go onto Native American lands. They were always in fights over land. · 1636- Harvard was established and the first college in America. · 1662- Half-Way Covenant for congressional church membership was established. · 1670- The Virginia assembly disfranchised landless freemen who were unable to find land and wives. · It was hard to find land because it was in poor condition from all the tobacco and wives were hard to find because disease was so common. · The upset young who were disfranchised began Bacon’s Revolution in 1676. · 1680’s- Mass expansion of slavery in the colonies. · When the number of blacks in their mists increased dramatically, white colonists reacted remorsefully to this supposed racial threat. · 1689-1691- Leisler’s Rebellion in New York. · 1692- Salem, Massachusetts witch trials. · 1693- The College of William and Mary was founded in Virginia. · 1698- The Royal African slave trade monopoly ended. · By 1700- The English colonist population was 250,000 ·  1712- New York experienced a slave revolt. · 1739- South Carolina experienced a slave revolt.