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Chapter 4: American Life in the 17th Century A. The Unhealthy Chesapeake I. Many diseases took a harsh tole on the earliest Chesapeake settlers  a. 10 years cut off original life expectancy  II. By the end of the 18th century.. a. Virginia: about 59000 people b. Maryland: about 30000 people B. Tobacco Economy I. Leaf- Radin ships annually hauled around 1.5 million pounds of tobacco out  C. Frustrated Freeman and Bacons’ Rebellion  I. In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led about 1000 Virginians out of contol to search for land  II. Bacon later died of disease like many of his followers and Berkeley crushed the rebellion <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">C. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Colonial Slavery <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">A. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10 Million Africans were carried to the New world- Only 400000 ended up in North America <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">By the 17th century the number of Africans dramatically increased <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">I. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1662- first ‘slave codes’ <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Blacks and their children servants for life <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">b. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Illegal to teach a slave to read or write <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">II. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Slavery many have began for economic reasons but by the end of the 17th century was clearly racial discrimination <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">III. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Slavery in the south was especially severe <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">IV. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A slave revolt in New York in 1712 cost the lives of a dozen whites and the execution of 21 African Americans <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">V. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Another slave revolt in 1739 <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">E. Southern Society <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> I. Great planters-small farmers-landless whites- persons serving- Black slaves <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">D. The ½ Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> I. 1692- 20 individuals were hanged <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> II. Witch craft hysteria ended in 1693 <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">F. The Early Settlers Days and Ways <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> I. The cycles of the seasons and the sun set the schedule of all colonists and slaves <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> II. All women wove cooked cleaned and cared for children <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">I. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Animosity between landholders and merchants fueled Lester’s Rebellion- 1689-1691 <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">II. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Massachusetts in 1651 prohibited poor people from many things <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Gold silver lace and silk