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Demographic Disaster
Americans --> new world-tomatoes/potatoes/tabacco/corn
Old Word-->Americans-Wheat/rice/sugarcane/horses/cattle/pigs/sheep
- Population of america at christopher voyage
- --50-90 million
- Indian Population
- --2-5 milion
- Catastrophe
- -contact w/ europeans/wars/enslavemetn/diseases
- --smallpox
- --influenza
- --measle
- no antibodies
- west island depolated
- hispaniola(native)
- 300,000 - 1 million disapear
- Mexico population fall 90% in 16th century
- -- from 20 million to 2 million
80 millioon died(1/5)
- this enabable european to conquer the amricans
- along with technology and military prowess
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Women and the Family
- Viginia colony promoted immigration of women
- *Several dozen tabacco brides arrived for arranged marriges
- *Male servatos to work in tabacco fields
- *Men in chesapeake outnumbered women
- -four or five to one
- *women came as indentured servants
- - had to complete service b4 marrage
- *High death rate & late age of marriage
- -produced a society w/ large # of single men widows and orpans
- *Patriarchal idias
- -hard tosupervise careers & marriages of their children
- England
- *Dower Rights
- - right to 1/3 of husbands properties
- Spain
- *Women can hold property inherited by parents
- *property during marrige belong to both
- Single women took advantage o legas stus as femme sole
- -- a woman alone who enjoyed an indep legal identidy denied to married women
- * to make contracts and conduct business
- Margaret brent
- -migrated to chesapeake acquired land
- -manage her own plantation
- -& acted as a lawyer at court
- Widows
- - where allowed to administer their husbands estateds or were willed their husbands prperty insted of 1/3
- Servants were
- -sexual abuse by masters
- -does who married often got poverty after husbands died
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The Puritan Family
- Puritans shared w/ a lager socitey belief in
- --male authority
- *limited married womens legal & economic rights
- Puritans in america
- -carefully emulated the family sturcture of england
- *insisting that the obedience of women, children and servants to men's will was the foundtation of social stability.
- *fathes authority was vital
- --not many slaves
- --control over ones family was essential to a mans econimica sucess
*women were deemed to be the spiritual equals of men
- Puritan Marriage based on
- *Reciprocal affection & companionship
- *divorce was legal
- husbands had virually absolute
- *mans position of head of his family was thought to
- -replicate gods authority in spiritual matters
- -& authority of government in th secular realm
- *Family was the foundation of strong communities
- *unmarraied where dangered 2 social fabric
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New England Economy
- *New England colonies prided that religion was the primary motivation for migration
- --they said they moved in order to advance the kingdom of our lord jesus christ and to enjoy the liberties of the gospel in purity with peace
- *Economic motives were hardly unimportant
- -- one promotional pamphlet spoke of new england as a place where religion and profit jump together.
- Most puritans came from east anglia
- *one of most economically advanced areas of england
- --east anglia suffered from a series of poor harvest and the dislocation caused by a decline in the cloth trade
- Majority of emigrants were
- -weavers/trailors or famrers
- *they came to england from middle rank of society
- most paid family passages --instead of indenturing themselves to labor
- ---saw religion liberty & economical advancement
- Desire of land among young families & new comers
- was the major moitve for new engands expansion
when one of a resident proposed that every man should recieve an equal land was rejented they were givein a grant to establish their own town farthem west.
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The Mercantilist System
- by the middle of 17th century
- --it was apparent that the colonies could be an important source of wealth for the mother country.
- then the mercantilism was introduced
- **mercantilism encourage manufacturing and commerce
- -in special bounties
- -monopolies
- -and other measures
- Trade should be controlled so that more GOLD & SILVER came in the country
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- Role of colonies
- -to serve the interes ot the mother country
- **by producing MARKETABLE RAW MATERIALS and importing MANUFACTURED GOODS FROM HOME.
- Commerce was the foundation of empire
- New englands new economy policy
- **Mercantilism.
- ---english should enjoy profits arasing 4rm english empire
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