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Chapter 3 talks about how in Salem, charges of witchcrafts caused turmoil in the late seventeenth century. The Chesapeake
has a much higher mortality rate then New England. Elementary school was open in the townships if there were fifteen or more
families, with the support of local taxes. New England daily lives was to conduct, village meetings, militia training, last
but not least church related activities.
The northern, middle, and southern English colonies had many differences. The northern colonies were all about religious
when the middle and southern was all about making money. The south had better land so they had more ability to focus on agriculture.
The north was diverse, and focuses on religion, and family. That’s were the puritans and pilgrims went.
Important Facts:
~Navigation Acts-a series of commercial restrictions passed by Parliament intended to regulate colonial commerce in such
a way as to favor England's accumalation of wealth.
~Bacon's Rebellion-an armed rebellion in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colony's royal governor Sir William
Berkeley. Bacon was chiefly interested in gaining a larger share of the lucrative Indian trade.
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