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Life in Chesapeake: Disease, Conflict, and Servitude

Explore the challenges faced in Chesapeake including shorter life spans, tobacco depletion, Bacon's Rebellion, and the impact of indentured servants. Learn about the New England colonies' contrasting lifestyle and the significance of the Half-way Covenant and Salem Witch Trials.

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Life in Chesapeake: Disease, Conflict, and Servitude

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  1. Chapter 4

  2. Life in Chesapeake • Shorter life span due to spread of disease • ½ people did not live until 20 • Few people had grandparents unlike New England Colonies • Tobacco exhausted land, -> people move west -> Native American land -> conflict • More tobacco = more land • Indentured Servants • Paid passage in exchange for several years service • Headright System • 50 acres of land to whoever (plantation owner) pays the passage of an immigrant (indentured servant) • Who does this benefit? Why?

  3. Bacon’s Rebellion (Virginia) • Event • Bacon’s crew goes on a killing spree of Natives, burns down Jamestown • Causes • More and more settlers didn’t have land (indentured servants, immigrants from Headright system) • Governor William Berkeley too friendly Native Americans, angers settlers • Effects • A new labor force- slaves from Africa. • Why? • Significance: • Shows class tensions between rich and poor

  4. Middle Passage • Part of the journey on the triangular trade • 20% of captives died on this part of the journey • Tight living quarters

  5. Africans in America Contd: • Rebellions did occur, although not frequently • Why? • New York City (1712): • Dozen whites are killed in rebellion, 21 blacks were executed • Stono River Uprising (South Carolina –1739) • 50 blacks rebelled and tried to go to Spanish Florida, stopped by militia • *****No slave revolt in history matched the scale of Bacon’s Rebellion****

  6. The New England Family • Towns = more families living closer • Education is of great importance; 50 families = mandated schools • Clean water and cool temperature slowed the spread of killer diseases • Life expectancy is higher, immigrants added 10 years to their lives • Longer life expectancy = closer-knit families • Population increased from procreation, not just immigration • Women gave up property rights when marries

  7. The Half-way covenant and the Salem Witch Trials • Half Way Covenant – increased membership, but sacrificed religious purity • Increase in membership separates “elect” from members of society • Salem Witch Trials • Most of the accused were from merchant class making $; accusers were mostly farmers • Illustrates tensions between rich and poor

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