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Chapter 4 Life in the American wilderness was nasty, brutal, and short for Chesapeake settlers. Many diseases cut years off of people’s life expectancy. From the booming tobacco economy Maryland and Virginia both had to find more workers. They made the “head right” system to encourage the importation of servant workers. Most of the servants were treated well and they were white. They represented more than 3 quarters of all European immigrants. Most slaves that came to America were shipped from west coast of Africa. The reasoning is because the slaves were captured by African coastal tribes, who traded them in crude markets to European merchants. America soon distinguished slaves as their own giving them their own slave codes to go by. Blacks had almost no rights considering they could not practice the same things as whites. New Englanders migrated not as individuals but as families. The population was increasing and life expectancy was increasing. Marriages were protected by the laws of Puritan New England. Anyone expected of adultery was publically whipped and beaten. The distant English King could scarcely imagine the passion that Bacons rebellions excited. They were able to rid of many Puritan leaders and help bring justice to government. 10 million Africans were carried in chains to the New World in 3 centuries. Africans were brought into Jamestown and were produced to help the tobacco industry out. Slave revolts began to take place around New England leading to the killing of all revolt. Merchant planters monopolized the regions and brought to the destruction of business life. Waterways were new which provided the principal means for transportation.