AH+Chapter+4

**// American Life in the Seventeenth Century //// (1607-1692) // __ Early Settlers __ __ Chesapeake (south) vs. New England (north) __
 * Chapter 4
 * They tried to keep everything (social system) the same
 * Everyone worked the same (in the North, South, free, slave…) men: famers, herders, “handy man”, and took care of the whole family (safety) women: house chores, and took care of kids children: helped parents with their duties and went to school

Chesapeake || Topic || New England || Mainly single men immigrating, it was hard to raise a family because of the lack of women and diseases. Because of this women could have property rights incase of death and the population was low || Life || Families immigrated, it was easy to raise a family because of the lack of disease and amount of women. Because of this women couldn’t have property rights and divorce was rare (if it was okayed) || Great for farming (tobacco), couldn’t keep up with demand and used Indentured Servants. “Head right”-had an Indentured Servant you got 50 acres of land, took advantage of it and became merchant planters. ||  Work || Terrible for farming, so they took land from Native Americans for other jobs like, factories, timbering, live stock, and ship building. || Virginia Gov. William Berkely refused to get revenge from Indian attacks, so Nathaniel Bacon lead 1,000 frontiersmen to chase Berkely out of Jamestown and burn down the capital (aka Bacon’s Rebellion). Created a civil war until Bacon’s death bringing back Berkely. Tensions between the people stayed causing them not to hire one another leading to slavery. Once the number of black slaves out numbered white people started to feel weird. As a solution laws were created but just made racism more obvious and a bigger deal. ||  Racism || There wasn’t a lot of racism towards black people because there weren’t many in the north, but there was towards independent women and religion. Salam Witch trial: independent women were main targets and were sentenced to death if the were accused. Ended in 1693, when a governor’s wife was accused. The Half-way Covenant: People started to break away from church, which led to the creation of baptism to prove faith. ||

__ Slave Rebellion __
 * New York 1712, a slave revolt and killed 12 white people, so 21 black people were “roasted” over a fire
 * 1739 50+ South Carolina black people tried to march to Spanish Florida, they were stopped by local Militia, found out that they were better than the indentured slaves sp they replaced them.