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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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American Life in the Seventeenth
CenturyRayson Egan
Andrew Dudley
The Unhealthy Chesapeake
Chesapeake Conditions?
Demographics Life
expectancy Weak family
ties
Tobacco Economy
Land Indians Overproduction: dropin prices Labor from where? Slaves? Problem Indentured servants Headright System?
Life of an indentured servant?
The Tobacco Economy
William Berkeley Freemen voting rights Bacons Rebellion? Result? Look for less
troublesome laborers
Frustrated Freeman and Bacon’s Rebellion
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
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
Result of Hierarchy due to slavery?
Great Planters First Families of Virginia Small Farmers, largest Landless Whites Indentured Whites Slaves
Southern Society
New England Climate? Demographics Grandparents Birthrate Family structure Role of women re: property Sanctity of Marriage
The New England Family
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
Half way covenant? Result? Salem Witch Trials
The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch
Trials
Ethnicity Diversified agriculture Hard Work and Frugality Religion, Soil and Climate New England Conscience
The New England Way of Life
Leisler’s Rebellion Egalitarian Society for the most
part
The Early Settler’s Days and Ways