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Chapter 4 1.TheUNhealthy Chesapeake - life expectance is 20 years in the 17th century - diseases like Malaria - people in 17th century known as Chesapeake - marriages and pregnancies were common until someone died 2. The tobacco economy - Chesapeakes biggest cultivation for tobacco - used a lot of land after every crop gathering. Called for more Indian attacks - 1.5 million lbs of tobacco in 1630’s - product increased prices decreased - labor workers were needed (England’s farmers) - laborers in exchange get “freedom dues, transatlantic passages, suit of clothes, barrels of corn, and a small piece of land - head right system: if you paid for the passage of a labor you got 50 acres - law didn’t work for long because too many people wanted more land 3. Frustrated Freeman and Bacon’s Rebellion - late 17th century men had no wife’s or land - Governor William Berkeley didn’t care about the land or men - Bacon retaliated and chase Berkeley out of the area and lit the capitol building o n fire -Bacon died and Berkeley hung all followers 4. Colonial Slavery - 10 million Africans taken to the New World as slaves in 3 centuries -taken to North America, South America, and India - servants were less costly then slaves and lasted longer -slaves sometimes gained their freedom - slave codes said blacks and their children are property of white masters - can’t learn to read or write. They had to be Christian - main cause of slave system is racial discrimination 5. Africans in America - climate in southern America made it hard to survive but in tobacco growing areas survival rate was higher - both racial sides increased in population - slaves created their own religion and language - slave song and dance influenced the jazz development - slaves revolted in New York City in 1739 6. Southern Society - House of Burgesses was dominated by people in the Virginia real estate - these people are called FFV - social scale: FFV, planters, landless whites, and slaves 7. The New England Family - pioneer New Englanders lived a healthy life with few diseases -traveled with family so population stayed the same - women full time job is raising children until death - if husband died the wife could own property - divorce was uncommon but if It did happen they would be forced back together - 1859 book the Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne - if women committed adultery they had to wear a capital A on their clothes 8. Life in the New England Towns - they care about the moral health of the whole community - New Englanders became a close society - the community had a town hall for meeting and each family got a good portion of land - the first college was Harvard College built in 1693. Men went there to be trained in ministry 9. The Half-Way covenant and the Salem Witch trials - population grew and people had to move away from the churches and schools - half way covenant said that you are baptized but don’t have to be fully communized - the half way Covent further separated God from his people and the elects - witch hunting started in 1692 because people were being lynched - witch crafted ended in 1693 when the governor’s wife was threatened - all trials ended and those convicted were pardoned 10. The New England way of life - Englanders started off life with bad land - they cleaned it up and grew crops as well as bringing new livestock to the New World - the climate was hard and had extreme heat and cold - experts in shipbuilding and commerce - religion was Calvinism - “ New England Conscience” inspired reformers 11. The Early Settlers’ Day and ways - followed a particular farming schedule - women’s jobs were to clean and cook, and sew - men worked in the fields - Leisier’s rebellion in 1689-1691 in New York between landlords and merchants - many people tried to bring European lifestyle to the New World but it didn’t work as well as planed