Chapter 3 Notes

These notes are extremely rough. They should not be relied on and require editing ASAP.

Chesapeak Society

• Tobacco booms in 1620s as a Cash Crop. Grown mostly near Virginia and Maryland.
• Indentured servants were used for most of the labor.

State and Church in Virginia

• Virginia adopts British style of gov't (bicameral if I'm correct?)
• Set local tax and establishes churches
• Act for Religious toleration was considered a joke because it did not fully protect other religions.
• Disease such as Tyhpoid and Malaria are a problem.

Tobacco + Bacon's Rebellion

• Price for Tobacco falls
• Servants are having large death rates
• TEnsion rises with Indians & Settlers due to colonial expansion.
• Bacon's Rebellion takes place due to angry colonists.
  • Virginians rose because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans.

Puritanism Crackdown

• England has a crackdown on puritans.
  • Wealthy puritans take charters to Mass. Bay (escape to America)

Towns + Famalies and Farm Lifes

• Establish land grants via church.
• New Englanders lived longer due to better conditions then such as in England where overcrowding took place.
• Women changed with their roles and life such as the ideal of seperate spheres.

Economic and Religious Tensions

• Limits set on pricing (5% overpriced limit. Where, in England or Colonial America?)
• Charles 1st, attempts to impose a tax -> causes Civil War.
  • Charles is killed and Charles the 2nd comes to power.
    • This results in Restoration.

Expansion and Native Americans

• 90% of Indians were killed from disease along the coast.
• Pequot war between expanding settelers.
• 1637 all Pequot resistance was crushed.
• Indian Population goes from 125,000 to 10,000 over 75 years.
• Colonists monopolized Native Debts.
• Caused King Phillips War, NAtives rallied with Indian Chief Metacom and raided New England towns. Killed about 2,500 colonists but 5,000 Indians die.

Salem Witchcraft

• Massachusetts suffered irregulations within society.
• Witch accusations flew all over, mostly by women accusing other women. (Jelousy?)
• All women were eventually pardoned after it came to the attention of being rediculous.

Sugar, Slaves and the West Indies

• Spanish, Dutch and French began a race to