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1) Early Settlers  a)  They tried to keep everything the same from their old cultures i) Men: Farmers, butchers, handy man, took care of the family  ii)  Women: Household chores, raised the kids iii) Kids: Helped the parents a lot  2)  In the South a) Life  i)  Single immigrated here ii) More disease which caused 50 year life expectancy for men and 40 for women  iii)  Low population which made having a family hard. b) Work  i)  Most people were farmers. Biggest crop was tobacco and indentured servants became very popular c) Racism  i)  Authorities often did not allow revenge on the Indian attacks but the citizens did want it. (1) Bacons Rebellions was a rebellion against the governor of Virginia in order to revenge the recent Indian attacks ii) Slavery grew very quickly because of how cheap it was to buy them. Soon black slaves outnumbered the number of white people.  <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">3)  In New England <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a) Life  <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">i)  Families immigrated here together <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">ii) Colder so there was less disease which added ten years to the life expectancy.  <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">iii)  High population so it was a good place to raise a family. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">b) Work  <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">i)  Became a more technologically advanced area because of poor farming land. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">(1) Factories, timbering, livestock and ship building were major industries. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">c) Racism  <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">i)  Racism was not towards Africans but there was a lot of persecution towards different religions. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">(1) Many women were accused of being witches during the Salem Witch Trial and were then sentenced to death.