EEG+Chapter+4

o 50% of settlers in early Virginia and Maryland did not reach 20. o 1630’s – America was exporting about 1.5 million pounds of tobacco. o Indentured Servants: paid for voyage to America through promised labor and totaled about 75% of all European immigrants. o Beacon’s Rebellion (1676) Nathaniel Beacon rounded up a mob of men and Indians to revolt, but many Indians died of disease. § Revolt was quickly put down. o 400,000 out of the 10 million that left Africa reached the new world. § Many were split between the Caribbean and Europe. o 1670: 2000 of the 35000 (6%) people were slaves in Virginia, and there were roughly 3500 out of 50000 (about 7%) were slaves in the south. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Mid 1680’s: there were more African American slaves than white servants. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1750: almost 50% of the people in Virginia were slaves, and 2 out of 3 people were slaves in South Carolina. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1662: statutes in Virginia seeded racial discrimination and outrageous laws to prevent revolts. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Southern Colonies revolved around plantation life. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Northern Colonies had fewer problems with disease due to the climate difference. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Northern life was based upon families. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Early marriage and large families were common in the colonies. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">All of the colonies allowed widows to gain the property rights of their husband upon his death, unlike England. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Harvard College was founded in 1636 to train boys for ministry. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Virginia’s first college: William and Mary (1693). <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Northern colonies allowed each man to vote for officials, schoolmasters and discuss matters in public. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Puritans slowly became less frivolous in their attempts to differentiate the elite from the fallen people of society. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“Witchcraft” was rampant in Europe and America <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings;">§ <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Salem Witch Trials <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings;">§ <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Ended by 1693 <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings;">§ <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“Witch-hunting” became a term for looking for a scapegoat. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Northern Colonies were not as diverse as their Southern counterparts <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A majority of the colonists were farmers. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Many people who did not have anything, such as freed indentured servants or the poor, slowly moved westward. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Leisler’s Rebellion (1689-91): Aspiring merchants fought back against the wealthy landowners due to high tensions.