NG+Chapter+4

__Chapter 4 __ · Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid struck Chesapeake settlers hard in the sixteenth and seventeenth century · There was a six to one ratio of males to females in 1650 · By the end of the seventeenth century inhabitants became immune to the diseases that struck them · People often laid waste to tons of land because of their intense growing of tobacco · Due to the need for extra laborers they created indentured servants which were people from England which gave their work in order for freedom dues · There were about 100,000 indentured servants in the Chesapeake region by the 1700’s · Many indentured servants, even after their time was up as one, usually went back to their masters because they didn’t have enough money to start their own life · <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Virginia’s Governor William Berkeley face revolt led by Nathaniel Bacon due to Berkeley’s refusal to fight Indians <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">About 10 million Africans were shipped to the New World but only about 400,000 were shipped to North America <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 1680 black slaves outnumber white slaves among the plantation colonies new arrivals <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Black people by 1750 accounted for nearly half the population in Virginia and outnumbered the white people in South Carolina two to one <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Slaves were branded, bound, and sold in slave markets <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">By 1662 slave codes were made to give white masters the right to own black and slaves and their children and black discrimination was now becoming a molding for the American slave system <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Southern slaves had it hard due to the hot temperature and the labor was life-draining <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Chesapeake colony was one of the first colonies to perpetuate itself through its own natural reproduction <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">African culture got into American culture through their preaching, instruments, and styles of music <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">White indentured servants were on a lower social class than black slaves <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Northern New England colonists had an average of 10 years longer of life than southern colonists because of the cool temperatures <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Women typically got married in early twenties and continued to have babies form then all the way to menopause <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Since men generally died younger widows were given their husbands estate when the men died <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Women were still looked upon as less knowledgeable than men in New England <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Massachusetts while only 8 years old, created Harvard College which is the oldest corporation in America <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The spiritual unity and purity eventually got taken down because of dispersal of new people and the beliefs of different generations <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Many “witch hunts” took place during this time because of the widen stratification of New England and the fears of the Puritan people <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Northern New England was not very ethnically diverse because people weren’t attracted to stony ground <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Indians recognized the right to use the land but the ownership of individual pieces of land was alien to them <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">England brought over animals like pigs, horses, sheep and cattle <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">New Englanders scattered from Ohio to Oregon and even to Hawaii and created many communities with the Puritanism image <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In the south women wove, cooked, cleaned, and cared for children while men cleared land, fenced, planted, and cropped it <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Children did the same tasks as men and women along with as much schooling as they could <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">People tried giving less rights to poorer people but these efforts soon wore away because of Americas want to equality and democracy for white people