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Chapter 4 terms
American Life in the 17th Century
Question | Answer |
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Headright System | whoever paid the passage of a laborer recieved the right to aquirer 50 acres. |
Indentured Servants | Whites who worked without pay for a certain number of years to pay for their passage |
Bacon's Rebellion | landless young men full of resentment reaked hovoc on Jamestown. |
Governor William Berkely | governer of Virgina colon. Driven out during the rebellion. Friendly toward inidians policy. |
Nathaniel Bacon | led the stinken rebellion stupid |
Middle Passage | route of slave ships from Africa to North America |
Royal African Company | company that caried slaves to the colonies |
Triangular Trade | Raw materials go to Europe. Finished good go to Africa, slaves go to colonies |
"African Diaspora" | was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world |
New York City slave revolt 1712 | natural fight for freedom. Revolt where a dozen of whites where killed and 21 blacks executed. |
Stono Rebellion | More than 50 South Carolina blacks along tje Stono River exploded in revolt and tried to march to Spanish Florida only to be stopped by the local militia |
"FFVs" | "first families of virginia" families established in Virginia before 1690 |
Harvard College 1636 | established by the puritans. |
William and Mary College 1693 | college in jamestown |
"jeremiad" | A long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes. |
Salem Witch Craft Trials 1692 | hysterica witch hunts and hangings as a result of jealous, revenge and greed b/c people would accused one another |
Half Way Convenant | modified the "convenant" to admit to baptism, but not "full communion" the unconverted children of existing members. Weakened the distinction between the elect and others |
Town Meeting Democracy | |
Leisler's Rebellion 1689-91 |