During the 17th century, the southern colonies had a hard time.The life spans of the people were small because of diseases going around.The population was mostly men during this time, and women were rarely single.White indentured servants were hoping to become wealthy from the tobacco economy, but were held back.This helped start Bacons Rebellion.Slaves started coming over from Africa, and many died of disease also.They eventually started reproducing, so their population grew, especially for those living in the tobacco region. In the New England colonies, people lived healthier lives than in the south.They had little towns and churches, and were quite peaceful.Later in the century though, religious and social tensions grew, playing a major role in the Salem Witch Trials.Because the soil was so bad, they fished and shipped goods mostly. Ill do the ten facts later I guess
Bacons Rebellion was caused angry indentured servants who were not being released from their "temporary" masters. After the rebellion, there were groups of wandering, angry men in America. People began to realized that indentured servants werent working out and they decided to use Native Americans to work on plantations. However, they were much more rebellious when in slavery and often fell sick to European illnesses. Then they referred to the Slave Trade. Why couldnt they have just paid workers? gosh, they were so lazy.
and why did the south have more death from disease than the north?
The following is absolutely right out of my head here and now, so I apologize if it is horribly wrong.
The South just lacked massive resources (which eventually forced them to surrender). I think that's enough right there, though perhaps temperature played a role...?
What happened in Bacon's Rebellion? Who was involved in it and what was the impact?
Virginian Governor William Berkeley did not retaliate against the Native Americans after they attacked several colonists. Frontiersmen, led by Nathaniel Bacon, raided all the local Native American villages and eventually set fire to Jamestown and sent Berkeley running in fear. However, after Bacon died of disease, Berkeley came back, hung over twenty "rebels," and brought life in Jamestown back to normal. Only now, rather than looking at indentured servants as the way to go for cheap labor, colonists turned to free labor from Africa...
What was the major thing holding back the North from branching out into agriculture and stuff? And what made the Salem Witch Trials such a huge problem in the North, but almost non-existant in the Southern colonies?
A lot of indentured servants were forced to work for their masters after their time ended because they simply had no where else to go. Or they wen out and lived on the strets or in gangs and wandered the roads which is what happened in many cases.
