Chesapeake•Women marrying younger
Chesapeake•Women marrying younger
•Having more children
Chesapeake•Women marrying younger
•Having more children
•Raising larger families
Chesapeake•Women marrying younger
•Having more children
•Raising larger families
•Men and women living longer
Chesapeake•Women marrying younger
•Having more children
•Raising larger families
•Men and women living longer
•Cities emerging
Chesapeake•Women marrying younger
•Having more children
•Raising larger families
•Men and women living longer
•Cities emerging
•New towns in hinterlands
Chesapeake•Women marrying younger
•Having more children
•Raising larger families
•Men and women living longer
•Cities emerging
•New towns in hinterlands
•Colonial aristocracy emerging
Chesapeake•Women marrying younger
•Having more children
•Raising larger families
•Men and women living longer
•Cities emerging
•New towns in hinterlands
•Colonial aristocracy emerging
•Settlements moving to new frontier
1.Life expectancy lower than northeast
1.Life expectancy lower than northeast
2.More arable land
1.Life expectancy lower than northeast
2.More arable landAll sons inherited land
1.Life expectancy lower than northeast
2.More arable land
All sons inherited land
Wealthy planter elite
1.Life expectancy lower than northeast
2.More arable land
All sons inherited land
Wealthy planter elite
Intermarriage encouraged
1.Life expectancy lower than northeast
2.More arable land
3.Built great estates
Family Life of the Gentry
a)Emotional displays discouraged
a)Emotional displays discouraged
b)Mask emotions
a)Emotional displays discouraged
b)Mask emotions
c)Public emotions avoided
a)Emotional displays discouraged
b)Mask emotions
c)Public emotions avoided
d) family quarrels common
a)Emotional displays discouraged
b)Mask emotions
c)Public emotions avoided
d) family quarrels common
e)Sexual indiscretion
•Society more native born
•Society more native born
•Choose marriage partners
•Society more native born
•Choose marriage partners
•Focus on immediate family
•Society more native born
•Choose marriage partners
•Focus on immediate family
•Family affection- mothers
Within 40 years…..
Within 40 years…..
•Families disintegrating
Within 40 years…..
•Families disintegrating
•Parents irresponsible
Within 40 years…..
•Families disintegrating
•Parents irresponsible
•Kids loosing respect for authority
a)Rapid population growth
a)Rapid population growth
b)More land
a)Rapid population growth
b)More land
c)Shortage of labor
1.Diminished parental control
1.Diminished parental control
2.Different family patterns across social classes
1.Diminished parental control
2.Different family patterns across social classes
3.New concept of childhood
1.Land less important
1.Land less important
2.Less land
1.Land less important
2.Less land
3.Subdivided land
1.Land less important
2.Less land
3.Subdivided land
4.Primogeniture
1.Land less important
2.Less land
3.Subdivided land
4.Primogeniture
5.People moved
17th C
>10%
Illegitimacy rates
17th C
>10%
Illegitimacy rates
<40%
After period of decline
•Parental authority declined
•Parental authority declined
•Parental emotions changed
•Parental authority declined
•Parental emotions changed
•Respect and love
•Parental authority declined
•Parental emotions changed
•Respect and love
•Informal address
Cities•Almshouses
Cities•Almshouses
•Schools
Cities•Almshouses
•Schools
•Workshops
Algonquians Iroquois Muskegon
850,000- 2 million
850,000- 2 million240 tribes
•Communal housing
•Communal housing
•Men separated
•Communal housing
•Men separated
•Premarital sex
•Communal housing
•Men separated
•Premarital sex
•Polygamy
•Communal housing
•Men separated
•Premarital sex
•Polygamy
•Kinship ties
Kinship
•Patrilineal
Kinship
•Patrilineal
•Matrilineal
Kinship
•Patrilineal
•Matrilineal
•Siblings and cousins
Families•High infant and child mortality
Families•High infant and child mortality
•Nursed for 2 or more years
First contact•Population decline
First contact•Population decline
Old-world diseases
First contact•Population decline
Old-world diseases
1670s only 10% survived
First contact•Population decline
Old-world diseases
1670s only 10% survived
50 tribes extinct
First contact•Population decline
•European technology
First contact•Population decline
•European technology
Horses
Firearms
Metal knives
First contact•Population decline
•European technology
•Disrupted kinship patterns