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American Life in the Seventeenth Century

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

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American Life in the Seventeenth Century

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  1. American Life in the Seventeenth Century Rayson Egan Andrew Dudley

  2. The Unhealthy Chesapeake • Chesapeake Conditions? • Demographics • Life expectancy • Weak family ties

  3. The Tobacco Economy • Tobacco Economy • Land • Indians • Overproduction: dropin prices • Labor from where? • Slaves? Problem • Indentured servants • Headright System? • Life of an indentured servant?

  4. Frustrated Freeman and Bacon’s Rebellion • William Berkeley • Freemen voting rights • Bacons Rebellion? • Result? Look for less troublesome laborers

  5. Colonial Slavery • 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

  6. Africans in America • Slaves in Deep South vs.ChesapeakBeay. • Chesapeake Bay slaves were closer together, could start families ,and perpetuate themselvesthrough reproduction. • African American Culture • Gullah • Stono Rebellion

  7. Southern Society • Result of Hierarchy due to slavery? • Great Planters • First Families of Virginia • Small Farmers, largest • Landless Whites • Indentured Whites • Slaves

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

  9. 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

  10. The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials • Half way covenant? Result? • Salem Witch Trials

  11. The New England Way of Life • Ethnicity • Diversified agriculture • Hard Work and Frugality • Religion, Soil and Climate • New England Conscience

  12. The Early Settler’s Days and Ways • Leisler’s Rebellion • Egalitarian Society for the most part

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