#american_history 

## The South
Most people settled on large farms or plantations scattered along the James River, so towns didn't really develop.

1676 - Bacon's Rebellion, led by Nathanial Bacon.

Tidewater Virginia - stretch of land along the Atlantic coast, deep rivers are slightly salty from the sea - the name.
Beyond the Tidewater - the Piedmont, beyond the Piedmont - the Appalachian Mountains.
![[Pasted image 20230405164054.png]] (Piedmont)

People in the Piedmont were poorer than the ones in the Tidewater.
Virginia was corrupt, for the rich, against the poor.

William Berkeley, Virginia's governor, looked upon Indians as subjects of the king and also had fur trade with them, wanted to protect them. The poorer people of the Piedmont wanted to fight the Indians for their land.

Bacon marched to Jamestown twice, the government said it'd do stuff but it didn't, chaos, Bacon dies of a fever -> the rebellion collapses. Governor Berkeley hanged 23 rebel leaders. Now the govt knew it's dangerous to mess with indentured laborers, so they decided to mess with black slaves.

## Slavery in the South
Unlike indentured laborers, slaaves:
1) the master owned the slave
2) slavery was for life
3) children of a slave were automatically slaves

Slavery didn't become popular in Virginia until after 1690.

Slaves in the South (SC, GA, FL) began speaking their own language - **gullah**, a mixture of English and their native African languages

## The North
First economic depresseion in [[British Colonies in America|New England]] - [[English Civil War]].
Solution - trade with the West Indies, molasses & rumbullion (rum).

## Variety of Colonial life
The first German immigrants arrived in the 1680s - most attracted by Penn's ad campaign.
In 1700s the Scotch-Irish started arriving from Northern Ireland due to an economic crisis.