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Bill Fell Mr. Rowells AP US History 20 August 2009 Chapter Four In chapter 4, the diseases of Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took 10 years off the life expectancy for newcomers from England. In Virginia and Maryland, people died before they were twenty. Males out populated females 6 to 1 during 1650and 3 to 2 at 1700. 40 Million pounds of tobacco is sent out of Chesapeake Bay by the end of the century. Bacon’s Rebellion was a bunch of frontiersmen that have lost their land, rebelling towards the government of Virginia. After Columbus landing, about 10 million Africans were enslaved to the colonies, majorly to us arriving after 1700, most were to the West Indies before 1700. In 1750 African Americans were half the population in Virginia. In South Carolina, the African Americans outnumbered the whites 2 to 1. On the Middle Passage, death rates were 20%. The Chesapeake Bay area was one of the first slave societies to “grow” their production by natural reproduction. No slave uprising in American history matched the scale of Bacon’s Rebellion. 70 % of the leaders of Virginia legislature came from families. In New England, the people that came from the Old World added 10 more years on to their lifes, because of the clean water and cool temperatures, the first Puritains lived up to on average 70 years old,just the same amount of years as a present day America. New England people usually came in families from the Old World, which had the men to women ration a bit more even then in the Southern Colonies. The women in New England would marry their husband around their early twenties, and would have a child every two years until menopause. New England “invented” grandparents. There were barely any divorces in New England. Child abandonment and Adultery, those were whipped in public and force to wear the letter “A” on their clothes eithercutinto the clothing, or sown on. In New England, land was given out by proprietors, unlike in the Chesapeake Region, where land was met by individual at random. The first college in America was in 1636, Harvard College, where local boys were trained. The “witch hunt” which started when some girls said they were bewitched, turned into witches. This led to 20 individuals to be hanged a long with two dogs. Mathew Hopkins was a witch finder, who put suspected witches to a test but throwing them into a pond with his arms and legs together. Of the person floated, he/she was a witch, IF the person sunk, he was human, but would drowned and die. Pigs, horses, sheep and cattle were brought from Europe to New England giving the introduction of livestock, codfish, and tibermaking made New England as wealthy as the Aztec’s treasure. People from New England did not migrate for they already had the wealth and security. Massachusetts in 1651, prohibited poor people to wear silver or gold lacing.