ME+Chapter+Four

· 1619 first Africans arrive in Virginia · 1625 Population of England colonies in America, about 2000 · 1636 Harvard College founded · 1662 Half-way covenant for congregational church membership established · 1670 Virginia assembly disenfranchises landless freemen · 1676 Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia · 1680s Mass expansion of slavery in colonies · 1688-1691 Leisler’s Rebellion in New York · 1692 Salem witch trials in Massachusetts · 1693 College of William and Mary founded · 1698 Royal African Company slave trade monopoly ended · 1700 Population of English colonies in America about 250000 · 1712 New York City slave revolt · 1739 South Carolina slave revolt · Slave revolt in New York City in 1712 caused lives of a dozen whites and execution of twenty one blacks · Blacks evolved a unique language, Gullah ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 70% of the leaders of Virginia legislature came from families established in Virginia before 1690 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> More than fifty South Carolina blacks tried to march to Spanish Florida only to be stopped by local militia in 1739 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Men outnumbered women six t one in 1650 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Virginia and Mary employed the “head right” system to encourage the importation of servant workers ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Blacks accounted for nearly half the population of Virginia by 1750 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Rice growing imported from Africa along with African slaves to work the swampy rice fields, made South Carolina the rice basket of the British Empire ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> As slavery spread the gaps in the south’s social structure widened