Chapter+4

 American Life in the Seventeenth Century (1607-1692)
 * American wilderness was harsh on the Chesapeake settlers. Took 10 years off the life expectancy. Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took a cruel toll.
 * In 1650 men outnumbered women 6 to 1.
 * Tobacco was normally planted before corn to eat and about 40 million pounds was exported each year by the end of the 17th century.
 * White slaves were imported from Europe to run the tobacco fields.
 * Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676- many freemen and resentful servants rebelled and created a civil war in Virginia.
 * Many were punished and hung.
 * 10 million Africans were carried in chains to the New World after Columbus’ landing. 400,000 ended up in North America.
 * Blacks accounted for nearly half the population of Virginia by 1750.
 * In 1662 slave codes were made. Racial discrimination played a large role by the end of the 17th century.
 * African contributed to the American culture with word (voodoo), jazz, and the banjo/bongo drums.
 * African slaves helped build this country.
 * Southern Society- Planters, small farers, landless whites, white servants, and last the black slaves.
 * In New England the colonists added 10 years to their life because of the clean water and cool temperatures. Migrated as Families.
 * Southern families advanced the economy by allowing women to inherit their husband’s land.
 * Women in New England were protected from abusive spouses.
 * New England had a tight society which was small villages and farms. More orderly fashion of things.
 * Jeremiads were formed by the influence of Jeremiah and form the Puritans. Churches became welcome to all.
 * 1692 was the beginning of witch trials and lynching. Ended in 1693.
 * New England was less ethnically mixed. Experts in ship building and fishing.
 * Introduction of live stock changed the geography dramatically.
 * Rose at dawn, slept at dusk.
 * Planted in spring, tended in summer, harvested in fall, and prepared in winter.
 * Women wove, cooked, cleaned, and cared for children.
 * Men cleared land: fenced, planted and cropped it: cut firewood: and butchered live stock.
 * Children helped with the chores and learned schooling.