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Seventeenth century disease-ravaged settlements of the Chesapeake Bay
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suffered from malaria, dysentery and typhoid; half of the population didn't live to 20 yrs old; grew slowly because mostly single men came over; weak family ties; by end of 17th century, it starts to grow
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tobacco cultivation
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many planted tobacco; it wore out the soil; enormous production depressed prices; used indentured servants
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indentured servants
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promised years of labor for passage to America and would receive "freedom dues" when done
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freedom dues
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given to indentured servants, usually a few barrels of corn, a suit of clothes, and sometimes a small piece of land
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white slaves
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indentured servants
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Nathaniel Bacon
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29 yrs old planter who led rebellion; died of disease
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Bacon's Rebellion
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rebels were frontiersmen; fell murderously upon the Indians; chased Berkley from capital and burned it down
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Middle Passage
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transatlantic sea voyage that brought slaves to the new world; forced march to African coast to trek into American interior
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ratio between blacks and whites in Virginia and South Carolina in 1750
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Virginia: 1:1
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slave codes
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made blacks and their children the property of their masters for life
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slave life in South Carolina
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worked on rice and indigo plantations (very demanding); many died; mostly male Africans; horrible heat; "lonely hells"
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slave life in Chesapeake region
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tobacco is less demanding to pick, more contact with relatives and other slaves because tobacco fields were closer together, slave population reporduced naturally thru women
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Gullah
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unique language formed by blacks on islands off so. carolina; corruption of angola; blended english with yoruba, ibo, and hausa
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FFVS
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first families of virginia; leaders of the House of Burgess; Lees, Washingtons
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small farmers (southern society)
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largest social group, tiled their modest plots, had 1 0r 2 slaves, ragged hand-to-mouth existence
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head right system
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whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to aquire 50 acres of land
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Anthony Johnson
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in Northhampton, he was a slave, bought his freedom then became a slave holder himself
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slave religion
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became Christians, but fused elements of African and Western traditions and drew their own conclusions from scripture
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life expectancy in 17th century new england
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added 10 years to their life by migrating from old world (lived to about 70 years old)
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William Pjips
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Massachusetts govenor who was 1 of 27 children all by the same mother
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The Scarlet Letter
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basis came from those caught in adultery who were forced to have "A" on all their clothes
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town-fathers/"proprietors"
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moved themselves and families to designated places and set up towns with meeting house and village green
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Harvard College
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established 8 years after colony's founding; to train boys for the ministry
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the college of william and mary
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1693, founded 86 years after settlement; 1st college in Virginia
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New england town meeting
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all adult males met together and would vote on diff issues
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"jeremiad"
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new form of sermon that began to be heard from Puritan pulpits; scolded parishoners for wanting piety
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Half-Way Covenant
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new formula for Church membership; modified the "covenant" or the agreement between Church and its adherents to admit to baptism; weakened the distinction between the "elect" and others
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Salem "Witch Hunts" 1692
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directed at property owning women because of supersitions and prejudices
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"New England Conscrience"
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born of the steadfast Puritan heritage; left a legacy of high idealism in the national character and inspired many later reformers
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Leisler's Rebellion
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New york, animosity between lordly landholders and aspiring merchants; bloody insurgence that rocked NYC from 1689 to 1691
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Maryland's Protestant Uprising
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resentment against upper class pretensions end of 17th century
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