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American Life in the Seventeenth Century Rayson Egan Andrew Dudley

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

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American Life in the Seventeenth Century. Rayson Egan Andrew Dudley. The Unhealthy Chesapeake. Chesapeake Conditions? Demographics Life expectancy Weak family ties. The Tobacco Economy. Tobacco Economy Land Indians Overproduction: dropin prices Labor from where? Slaves? Problem - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: American Life in the Seventeenth Century

American Life in the Seventeenth

CenturyRayson Egan

Andrew Dudley

Page 2: American Life in the Seventeenth Century

The Unhealthy Chesapeake

Chesapeake Conditions?

Demographics Life

expectancy Weak family

ties

Page 3: American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Tobacco Economy

Land Indians Overproduction: dropin prices Labor from where? Slaves? Problem Indentured servants Headright System?

Life of an indentured servant?

The Tobacco Economy

Page 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century

William Berkeley Freemen voting rights Bacons Rebellion? Result? Look for less

troublesome laborers

Frustrated Freeman and Bacon’s Rebellion

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Slavery reasons Rising wages in Europe Bacon's Rebellion Life Expectancy of Chesapeake Bay increased Economic reasons as well as racial discrimination Slaves transported from? Middle Passage At first could obtain freedom, but as population

increased laws became harsher. Slave Codes Blacks and children property

Colonial Slavery

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Slaves in Deep South

vs.ChesapeakBeay. Chesapeake Bay slaves were closer

together, could start families ,and perpetuate themselves through reproduction.

African American Culture Gullah Stono Rebellion

Africans in America

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Result of Hierarchy due to slavery?

Great Planters First Families of Virginia Small Farmers, largest Landless Whites Indentured Whites Slaves

Southern Society

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New England Climate? Demographics Grandparents Birthrate Family structure Role of women re: property Sanctity of Marriage

The New England Family

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Life in New England

Towns Small Villages and

Towns unified people Puritanism's role in

society(abolition later) Orderly towns Elementary education

with towns of more than 50

Harvard Town Meeting

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Half way covenant? Result? Salem Witch Trials

The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch

Trials

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Ethnicity Diversified agriculture Hard Work and Frugality Religion, Soil and Climate New England Conscience

The New England Way of Life

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Leisler’s Rebellion Egalitarian Society for the most

part

The Early Settler’s Days and Ways