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"Life in the Colony: Challenges, Rebellion, and Women's Struggles in Early Carolina"

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Chapter 3 explores the myriad challenges faced by colonists in dense forests and a damp, hot climate filled with mosquitoes. Dangerous jobs such as logging, hunting, and seafaring defined survival, especially for women like Ann Durant, the first female lawyer in the colonies, who worked tirelessly in a patriarchal society. The chapter also covers the role of religion, the tensions leading to Culpeper’s Rebellion, and how colonists navigated oppressive laws from England, ultimately fostering a spirit of self-governance.

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  1. Life in the Colony Chapter 3 Theme 2

  2. Challenges • Dense Forests • Had to clear • Damp hot climate • Mosquitoes/ Malaria • Dangerous jobs • Logging • Hunting • seafaring • Widowed several times

  3. Colonial Women • Ann Durant was first female lawyer in Colonies, among other jobs. • Women had to work hard to help survive in the colonies. Do a man’s job often. • Had very few rights • When married husband took control over her belongings. Called coverture. • Story of Diana Harris Forester….

  4. Religion in the Colony • Anglican was official church of England. • Quakers dominated so they built their own institutions.

  5. Colonial Government • Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina • Appoint a governorto rule a colony • Colonist who owned 50+ could vote for people that created laws • Gov. chose members of a councilthat helped enforce laws • People wanted to use Americas to make England rich • Colonist did not want to please aristocrats. • Difficult to find an honest man to serve.

  6. Culpeper’s Rebellion • 1677 • Tensions became armed rebellion. • Colonist and Proprietors clashed over laws, Navigation Act. • Colonist had to ship products to England using English ships • Gave England a monopoly on American Resources. • Imposed taxes to enforce regulation

  7. Colonist shipped to Boston and Indies, not to England • Used ships that offered the best prices. • Carolina Colonies just ignored the law, England was far away.

  8. Thomas Miller • Miller was sent as governor to enforce Navigation Act • Seized cargos • Imposed fines • Jailed those who challenged • Sent ship to patrol Albemarle sound for smugglers.

  9. Miller tried to arrest Durant, and the colonist got MAD!!!! • Durant and Surveyor General John Culpeper, led a group of armed men and captured Miller. • Imprisoned him and other English officials • Colonist created their own assembly the met at Culpeper's house • Became known as Culpeper’s Rebellion

  10. Miller escaped to England • Culpeper followed to defend rebels. • England let it slide because they did not want to lose land, sent a new Governor, but he was captured by pirates, sis not arrive for years. • Carolina Colonist governed themselves.

  11. Story of Blackbeard