Unit 1: Interactions North America (jan 1, 1491 – jan 1, 1607)

Description:

The Colonial Population:
- Indentured Servants
- 3/4 of Chesapeake immigrants
- Served 3-4 yrs in exchange for passage
- Used b/c natives didn't make good laborers
& headright system
- Decline b/c Indentured servants eventually
became free and Bacons rebellion
- Women and Famalies in the Colonies
- Chesapeake: High mortality and birth rate
- New England: stable families, lower
mortality
- Beginnings of Slavery
- 11 million Africans brought-- Middle
Passage
The Colonial Economics:
- Farming and trade with natives throughout
- Southern Economy
- Tabacco in chesapeake -> overproduction
- Plantations
- Northern Economy
- Large scale farming didn't develop
- Middle colonies produced meat
- Comercial economy

Basics:
- Pre-contact natives
- New maritime tech and more exploration
- Columbian exchange
- God, Gold, Glory

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