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Colonies
Early Maryland and Virginia settlers had difficulty creating them and even more difficulty making them last
Disease
Primary cause of death among tobacco-growing settlers
Indentured Servants
Immigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor
Headright System
Maryland and Virginia's system of gaining land to anyone who would pay transatlantic passage for laborers
Hanging
Fate of many of Nathaniel Bacon's followers, though not of Bacon himself
Rhode Island
American colony that was home to the Newport slave market and many slave traders
Royal African Company
English company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade in 1698
Gullah
African-American dialect that blended English with Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa
Revolts
Uprisings that occurred in New York City in 1712 and in South Carolina in 1739
[See Pg. 73]
Wealthy extended clans like the Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons that dominated politics in the most populous colony.
Their Early 20's
Approximate marriage age of most New England women
Meetinghouse
The basic local political institution of New England, in which all freemen gathered to elect officials and debate local affairs
The Half-Way Covenant
Formula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion
Salem Witch Trials
Late seventeenth century judicial event that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige
Farming
Primary occupation of most seventeenth-century Americans
Chesapeake
Virginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements
Indentured Servants
Primary laborers in early southern colonies until the 1680s
Nathaniel Bacon
Person who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersman on a rampage against Indians and colonial government
Governor Berkeley
Colonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge
Royal African Company
Organization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free-enterprise expansion of the business
Middle Passage
Experience for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80 percent survived
Ringshout
West African religious rite, retained by African-Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher.
New York City slave revolt of 1712
Major middle-colonies' rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author of a novel about the early New England practice of requiring adulterers to wear the letter "A"
"New England conscience"
The legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans
Harvard
The oldest college in America, which reflected Puritan commitment to an educated ministry
William & Mary
the oldest college in the South, Founded in 1693 Half-Way Covenant -
Salem Witch Trials
Phenomena started by accusations of adolescent girls that ended in deaths of 20 people
Leisler's Rebellion
Small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants
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