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Chapter 4
 * Early settlements in Chesapeake were ravaged by disease.
 * Families were scarce, age span was less than 50
 * People would volunteer for a few years; in return they would get freedom in New World, corn, and other small items. (Indentured Servants)
 * 1,000 Virginians rebelled in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon.
 * When Bacon died, Virginia Governor William Berkely crushed the uprising.
 * Bacon’s uprising encouraged others to get angry about planting lords and indentured slaves.
 * 10,000,000 Africans were enslaved in the centuries following Columbus’ landing. 400,000 were brought to America
 * Slave codes started to develop in 1662
 * By 1720, female slave population in Chesapeake region rose, allowing families possible.
 * Chesapeake Tobacco farms could sustain slaves through natural reproduction.
 * Africans developed their own languages.
 * Slavery led to jazz, bongos, and other objects.
 * Few rebellions broke out with some white deaths, but none matched Bacons’ revolt.
 * Before the Revolutionary War, 70% of the Virginia legislature came from the first families of Vermin, who came in 1690.
 * Beneath planters, were small farmers.
 * Life span was +10 years in north than in the south.
 * Families were sustained, Women would have children every two years as long as possible.
 * Family environmental nurtured children to grow up well with obedience.
 * In south, many widows with children, inherited land from deceased husbands.
 * Women’s rights began to appear in the 1600’s
 * Midwifery was a monopoly among women
 * 1636 – Harvard was founded. 1693- William and Mary College.
 * 1692- Salem Witch Trials. Triggered witch hunt in Salem, Massachusetts. Ended in 1693
 * Almost all of farmers used seasons as guides for farming, much like today.
 * Land was relatively cheap to live on.
 * 1689-91: Leislers bloody rebellion between land holders and merchants.