Colonies Review/ Events to Revolution

1. Colonies Review/ Events to Revolution 10.1.12

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3. Chesapeake Society • 75% of population were aged 18-25 and came as indentured servants • Little women population • High Death Rate • 40% of the immigrants died in less then two years • High marriage rate because of death rate • Lived in scatted farms and plantations • Tobacco largest export • Grew or made necessities • Did not support schools- low literacy rate

4. Bacons Rebellion • Life expediency grows • Large number of freed indentured servants • Tobacco prices drop • Hard to make a living • Less land for farming • Poor Farmers and labors want to settle in West Virginia • Treaty was created which stopped settlement in this area • Ignoring the treaty settlers started moving into the land • White settlers killed a friendly group of native Americans and did not pay or give back to the nation • Native Americans began attacking outlying farms

5. Bacons Rebellion • Colonist want to declare war on Native Americans • Governor William Berkeley refused • Nathaniel Bacon creates army of Western Settlers and attacks native Americans on the frontier • Army consisted of indentured servants and slaves • Looted and burned plantations • Seized Jamestown and took over government • Bacon dies unexpectedly • House of Burgesses decides to open Native American land to colonist

6. The Carolinas • After death of Oliver Cromwell Charles the II restores monarchy power in England • Time in England Called the Restoration • King rewarded supporters with land • 8 supporters gained a colony between Virginia and Spanish Florida– named Carolina • Settlers came primarily from Barbados • Cattle, Tree cutting, and traded with Indians • Tried to grow rice but failed • Enslaved Africans from rice growing regions helped develop a way

7. Carolinas • Became very profitable and attracted • European Jews, Germans, Scots, Scots-Irish, and West Indians • Protestants would come later escaping religious persecution • Slaves due to large plantations • Little contact with white settlers while on plantations • Task System: assigned specific duties once finished they could work on their own farms or relax • Whites would eventually adopt harsh slave code fearful of slave revolt

8. Struggle for Land • Fight occurs between Mohawk and New Yorkers • Mohawk were part of the Iroquois League, a political confederation of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca • Dominated the fur trade • Protected all members • Middle men bought and traded furs from Native Americans and then sold them to the white settlers • Played English and French against each other

9. French and Indian War • Spain, France and England begin world wide struggle for empire • Fighting spilled over into North America • Three different Wars • King Williams War (1689-97), Queen Anne’s War (1702-13), and King George's War (1744-48) • For defense and to recruit the Iroquois representatives from 7 colonies met in Albany New York • Created the Albany Plan of Union formed by Ben Franklin • Britain rejected the plan due to fear of losing power

11. War Ends • War would rage in North America until Treaty of Paris • Awarded territories in North America • British claimed Canada and all French holdings East of the Mississippi River except New Orleans • Spain surrendered Florida to British