Chapter+4+Outlines+P7

**__American Life in the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 4__**
a.) Life expectancy shortaned 10 years for newcomers i.) malaria ii.) dysentery iii.) typhoid b.) men outnumber women c.) native-borns aquire immunity to the diseases d.) Virginia (59,000 people in eighteenth century) e.) Maryland (30,000 people in eighteenth century)
 * 1.) The Unhealthy Chesapeake**

a.) Tobacco needs fresh fields i.) provoke indian attacks b.) Leaf-laden ships hauled 40 million lbs. a year at end of 1600's c.) More tobacco = more labor i.) indians died by disease by contact ii.) slaves to expensive iii.) endentured servants and displaced farmers produce labor iv.) 100,00 indentured servants in Chesapeake (1700)
 * 2.) Tobacco Economy**

a.) single freemen frustrated i.) could not aqquire land ii.) failure to find single women to marry b.) Nathaniel Bacon i.)tensions remained
 * 3.) Frustrated Freemen and Bacon's Rebellion**

a.) 10 million African slaves carried in 3 centuries i.) 400,000 into North America b.) 7% of the 50,000 in Southern colonies (1670) c.) (1680) Black slaves outnumber white servants d.) auction blocks in New World Ports i.) New Port ii.) Rhode Island iii.) Charleston
 * 4.) Colonial Slavery**

a.) slave life more severe in South i.) climate harsh ii.) labor draining iii.) scattered rice and indigo plantations b.) Unique language evolved i.) English blended with several African languages (1.) Yoruba (2.) Ibo (3.) Hausa
 * 5.) Africans in America**

a.) Rough Social Structure i.) small covey of rich planters (1.) owned gangs of slaves b.) extended clans i. fitzhughs, Lees, Washingtons (1.)Donminated House of Burgesses c. revolved around plantations
 * 6.) Southern Society**

a.) added ten years to thier life span b.) natural reproduction increaced i.) early marriages women inherit husbans estates after husbans death d.) New England authorities could intervene with abusive spouses e.) divorce was rare
 * 7.) The New England Family**

8.) Life in the New England Towns a.) land distributed by proprietors i.) legally chartered towns ii.) meetinghouse surrounded by houses b.) towns with 50 or more families required school

9.) The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials a.) growing population i.) gradually disperses the Puritans (1.) new sermon formed called "jeremiad" b.) (1662) The Half-Way Covenant c.) Adolescent Girls claim to be bewitched i.) 20 individuals killed ii.) witchcraft hysterial ended (1693)

10.) The New England Way of Life a.) famous on industry b.) less ethnically mixed i.) stoney soil ii.) sermons sulfurous c.) Europeans felt a duty to improve the land d.) introduction of livestock from English i.) pigs, horses, sheep, cattle e.) natural harbors