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== Colonial America growth ==
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| '''PERIOD / TIMELINE'''
* 1578 Foribsher expedition to find ''Northwest Passage''
** failed but spurred British interest in North America
* 1634 Maryland founded by Catholic George Calvart
* 1681, William Penn granted charter for Pennsylvania
* 1614 Tobacco 1st shipped to England
* 1642 English Civil War
* 1651 British Navigation Act
* 1676 Bacon's Rebellion
* 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials
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'''BIG IDEAS'''
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'''DETAILS'''
* Tobacco
** John Rolfe planted seed from Trinidad in Virginia
** 1614 fist tobacco shipment to England
*** spurred colonial projection
* 1634 Maryland founded
** by Catholic George Calvert, Lord Baltimore; granted by English King Charles I
** first ''prioprietary colony'' = owned and governed by an individual
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== Southern colonial economies & demographics ==
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|+ '''Southern colonial economies & demographics'''
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=== cash crops ===
=== plantation economy ===
=== coastal elites ===
* Governor Berkeley
=== backcountry farmers ===
* '''yeoman farmers'''
=== Bacon's Rebellion ===
=== slavery ===
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'''BIG IDEAS'''
'''BIG IDEAS'''
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* tobacco in VA and MD
* rice/ indigo in SVC
* plantation economy
** increasing use of slaves
*** by early 1700s VA & MD planters switch from indentured servants to slaves
'''DETAILS'''
'''DETAILS'''
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* demographics
** stratification of southern society
* Southern gentry
** large estates
*** gentry lifestyle, including hunting, horse racing, gambling, dancing
*** coastal or '''Tidewater''' elites based on plantations and ports
* indentured servants and "backcountry" farmers:
** half of indentures servants died in colonies before earning freedom
** '''yoeman farmers''' owned their land, engaged in subsistence farming
** many former servants become tenent farmers  (rent not land ownership) due to costs of land surveys, fees, farming equipment & animals, etc.
** general trend is towards small-farm ownership and westward expansion in search for new lands to farm
 
 
'''Bacon's rebellion'''
* background:
** '''Governor Sr. William Berkely'''
*** controlled '''House of Burgesses''' via political patronage and favors among elites
*** exempted himself and ruling "governor council" members from taxes
*** restricted right to vote to property ownership (cut vote rolls by half)
* growing conflict with Native Americans over colonial encroachment on frontier lands
** 1675 war between Native Americans and frontier settlers
** coastal elites did not want war with Indians
* '''Nathaniel Bacon'''
** = wealthy landowner, buys frontier land, attacked by Indians
** member of the governor's council
*** but sides with frontier farmers on war with Native Americans
** Bacon leads his own militia to fight Native Americans
** Gov Berkeley calls for new election
*** but new legislators back Bacon and authorize militia
*** also restores vote to all free men and removed Berkeley's tax exemptions
** Bacon still opposes Berkeley regime, with small army takes over capital at Jamestown and charges Berkeley with corruption
** Berkeley flees, raises his own army and battles Bacon's army
** Bacon escapes but dies while hiding in a swamp and his army disintegrate
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== Colonial slavery ==
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* 1619 first Africans colonial America
* 1638 Maryland legally recognizes slavery
* 1705 Virginia slave code enacted
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'''DETAILS'''
'''DETAILS'''
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* 1619: first African slaves brought to British colonies by Dutch merchants
* British entry to slave trade via Royal African Company (1672)
* 1680s growth in central / south colonies
'''slavery & slave culture'''
* growth in slavery in 1680s
** after Bacon's rebellion wealthy planters increased reliance on slaves instead of indentured servants
** expanding frontiers, especially in Pennsylvania, had diminished flow of indentured servants
** increase in '''transatlantic slave trade''', including by British under the '''Royal African Company''' starting 1672
* slave culture
** maintain oral traditions, songs
** mixture of African and colonial cultures
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