1/4 APUSH UNIT 1 CHAPTER 4

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  Chesapeake Colonies

  1.  Hampered by disease

  2.  Tobacco dominated economics, and therefore, labor needed

  1. African slaves too much $$, Indians susceptible to disease, white pop. growth too slow
  2. Solution??
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  Indentured Servitude!

  1.  “Headright system” encouraged landowners to “sponsor” new workers

  2.  Worked for a specified period of time to pay off cost of travel to colonies

  3.  Would be free at end of term- usually 5-7 years

  4.  Often poor at end of service & couldn’t buy land
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  African Slavery

  1.  1st African slaves- as early as 1619

  2.  Minority of Southern pop. until about 1680

  3.  Slaves had to survive “Middle Passage”

  4.  Part of “triangle trade”
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  African Slavery

  1.  Slave codes appeared early (1660s)

  2.  Deep South rice plantations took horrific toll on slaves

  3.  Tobacco slaves in Upper South- not as severe

  4.  Natural reproduction eventually made supply of slaves more plentiful- price went down
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  Slave Revolts

  1.  Many attempts to break bondage

  Ex. New York colony-1712, Stono Rebellion 1739 in SC

  IRONY- Slave revolts against cruel treatment usually resulted in greater cruel treatment & repressive laws
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  Bacon’s Rebellion

  1.  Indentured servitude led to masses of impoverished disenfranchised people

  2.  Many fled to frontier areas looking for land- what problem did this lead to?
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  Life in the Southern colonies

  Elite planters  

  Small farmers

  Landless whites  

  African slaves  
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  New England Life

  1.  More healthy than Chesapeake colonies

  2.  Lower death, higher birth rates

  3.  Multigenerational households 

  4.  Women’s rights were few 

  5.  Village/town creation more orderly than in Chesapeake or South

  6.  50+ families meant elem. school!!!
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  Intolerance, religion, & witches!

  1.  Accusations reflected divide : prosperous v. less prosperous 

  Salem Town

  Salem Village

  2.  Revealed fear of change, loss of importance of religion 

  3.  20 executed in 1692
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  New England in summary

  1.  Tough, thrifty people

  2.  Farming, fishing, shipbuilding

  3.  Religion, resources made New Englanders proud, self-reliant