1. AMERICAN LIFE IN THE 17 TH CENTURY

2. LIFE IN THE CHESAPEAKE AMERICAN WILDERNESS BRUTAL DISEASE MALARIA, DYSENTERY, TYPHOID LIFE EXPECTANCY DECLINED MEN OUTNUMBERED WOMEN 6 TO 1 MEN COULD NOT FIND MATES

3. TOBACCO PLANTED TOBACCO TO SELL BEFORE PLANTING CORN TO EAT EXHAUSTED SOIL DEMAND FOR NEW LAND WENT FURTHER UP RIVERS AND PUSHED WEST MORE TOBACCO = MORE LABOR INDENTURED SERVANTS

4. CONT. HEAD-RIGHT SYSTEM SERVANT WORKERS PAID PASSAGE = 50 ACRES OF LAND 100,000 INDENTURED SERVANTS = 1700 VIRGINIA/ MARYLAND

5. BACON’S REBELLION FREEMEN = LOOKING FOR LAND / WOMEN GOVERNOR BERKELEY FRIENDLY POLICIES WITH NATIVE AMERICANS NATHANIEL BACON LOOKING FOR UNTAMED LAND 1,000 BROKE OUT OF CONTROL = 1676 PLUNDERING AND PILFERING CIVIL WAR IN VIRGINIA

6. COLONIAL SLAVERY 7 MILLION SLAVES TO NEW WORLD

7. CONT. 1680’S BLACK SLAVES OUTNUMBERED WHITES IN PLANTATIONS COLONIES ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY = CHARTER LOST RHODE ISLANDERS = CASH IN ON SLAVE TRADE 1750 ½ POPULATION = VIRGINIA OUTNUMBERED 2 TO 1 = S. CAROLINA

10. MIDDLE PASSAGE JOURNEY FROM AFRICA TO THE WEST INDIES PASSAGE WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT 20% OF THE SLAVES DIED ON THE TRIP

11. AFRICANS IN AMERICA SLAVE LIFE SEVERE IN DEEP SOUTH LIFE DRAINING RICE/INDIGO TOBACCO = LESS DEMANDING PLANTATIONS CLOSER TOGETHER MORE CONTACT WITH OTHER SLAVES CULTURE GULLAH (LANGUAGE) JAZZ

12. CONT. NEW YORK SLAVE REVOLT – 1712 9 WHITES DIED 21 SLAVES EXECUTED = BURNED AT THE STAKE SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVE REVOLT – 1739 50 SLAVES STONO RIVER = SPANISH FLORIDA

13. SOUTHERN SOCIETY PLANTATION OWNERS RAN THE SOUTH’S ECONOMY MONOPOLIZED POLITICAL POWER FAMILIES = FITZHUGHS, LEES, WASHINGTONS DOMINATED HOUSE OF BURGESSES HARD WORKING, BUSINESSLIKE, LONG HOURS SMALL FARMERS LARGEST GROUP HAND TO MOUTH 1-2 SLAVES LANDLESS WHITES FORMER INDENTURED SERVANTS

14. CONT. SOUTHERN FAMILIES = ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR WOMEN MEN DIED YOUNG WOMEN RETAIN SEPARATE TITLE TO THEIR PROPERTY WIDOWS RIGHT TO INHERIT

15. CONT. FEW CITIES SPROUTED LIFE REVOLVED AROUND PLANTATIONS WATERWAYS = TRANSPORTATION

16. NEW ENGLAND CLEAN WATER, COOL TEMPERATURES ADDED 10 YRS TO LIFE MIGRATED AS FAMILIES EARLY MARRIAGES BIRTH RATE INCREASED 10 PREGNANCIES / 8 CHILDREN PARENTS / GRANDPARENTS

17. CONT. WOMEN GAVE UP PROPERTY WHEN MARRIED LAWMAKERS = PROTECT / DEFEND MARRIAGES DIVORCE RARE MIDWIFERY CHILDBIRTH FEMALE MONOPOLY

18. NEW ENGLAND TOWNS TIGHT KNIT SOCIETY PURITANS = UNITY OF PURPOSE MORAL HEALTH DISTRIBUTION OF LAND IN HANDS OF PROPRIETORS WOODLOT, TRACT (CROPS), PASTURE 50 PLUS = SCHOOLS MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD – 1636 VIRGINIANS WILLIAM AND MARY – 1693 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH GOVERNMENT

19. CONT. JEREMIAD DOOM-SAYING SCOLDED PARISHIONERS DECLINE IN CONVERSIONS HALF WAY COVENANT - 1662 ADMIT TO BAPTISM – NOT FULL COMMUNION DOORS TO PURITAN CHURCH SWUNG OPEN

20. CONT. SALEM WITCH TRIALS – 1692 MASSACHUSETTS WITCH HUNT 20 INDIVIDUALS GOSSIP SUPERSTITIONS PROPERTY OWNING WIDOWS ENDED IN 1693

21. NEW ENGLAND LESS ETHICALLY MIXED STONY SOIL /EXTREME WEATHER EXPERT SHIPBUILDERS / COMMERCE CODFISH “FISHY GOLDMINES OF NEW ENGLAND” HUGE IMPACT ON THE REST OF THE NATION MOST WERE FARMERS SUN UP TO SUN DOWN WOMEN MANAGED THE HOME (PLANTATION)