1. American Life in the 17th C: 1607-1692
Chapter 4 Theme: In the Chesapeake region, seventeenth-century colonial society was characterized by disease-shortened lives, weak family life, and a social hierarchy that included hardworking planters at the top and restless poor whites and black slaves at the bottom. Despite the substantial disruption of their traditional culture and the mingling of African peoples, slaves in the Chesapeake developed a culture that mixed African and new-world elements ,and developed one of the few slave societies that grew through natural reproduction.

2. I. Southern Plantation Society
Despite Challenges, Chesapeake flourished
Difficult Living
Disease and family life
Tobacco increased
Indentured Servants
Headright System (+50)
Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676
Background of Slavery
Immigration of Slaves increased after 1670’s
Middle Passage to West Indies to SC or RI.
Limitations on freedom
No literacy, chattels are slaves, no freedom with conversion

3. II. Two Groups: Ebony or Ivory?”
African-Americans
Many hardships
Developed mixed culture
Ultimate goal: Freedom
Buy freedom
NY Revolt, 1712
Stono Revolt, 1739
White Americans
Strict social structure
a. Planters, yeoman, landless
Unique lifestyle
1712 NY Slave Revolt
1733 St. John Slave Revolt
1739 Stono Rebellion
1741 NY Conspiracy
1760 Tacky’s War (Jamaica)
Haitian Revolution

4. III. New England Society
Puritan townships evolve
Structured and ordered government.
Congregationalist
Half-way Covenant
Salem Witch Trials
Economic Diversity
Benefit of fast rivers
Rocky soil discouraged Ag.
Lots economic activities
Mono-cultural
Slavery diminishes
Middle or lower class

5. Review Questions
Compare and contrast the ways in which economic development affected politics in Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to (2005, A).
Analyze the impact of the Atlantic trade routes established in the mid 1600’s on economic development in the British North American colonies. Consider the period (2002, B)
Analyze the cultural and economic responses of TWO of the following groups to the Indians of North America before 1750.
British
French
Spanish
Compare the ways in which religion shaped the development of colonial society (to 1740) in TWO of the following regions:
New England
Chesapeake
Middle Atlantic
Compare the ways in which TWO of the following reflected tensions in colonial society (2003, A).
Bacon’s Rebellion
Pueblo Revolt (1680)
Salem witchcraft trials (1692)
Stono Rebellion (1739)