Unit 1 Chapter 4

Question 1

Headright system

Answer 1

Employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage the importation of indentured servants
-For labor indentured servant’s were granted 50 acres of land

Question 2

Bacons Rebellian

Answer 2

(1676) uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants; Led by planter Nathaniel bacon
- Intentionally a response to Governor William Berkeley’s refusal to protect backcountry settlers from Indian attacks

Question 3

Royal African company

Answer 3

(1672-1698) English joint stock company that enjoyed a state-granted monopoly on the colonial slave trade

Question 4

Middle passage

Answer 4

Transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies
-high mortality rates

Question 5

Slave codes

Answer 5

(1662) A set of laws defining racial slavery
- Limited rights/education to slaves
- blacks were property to their white masters

Question 6

Congregational church

Answer 6

Self governing Puritan congregation without the hierarchical establishment of the Anglican church
-democracy

Question 7

Jeremiad

Answer 7

Often fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners first delivered to New England in the mid-17th century
- named after the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah

Question 8

Half-way covenant

Answer 8

(1662) agreement allowing in converted offspring of church members to baptize their children
- weakened the distinction between the elect and other

Question 9

Salem witch trials

Answer 9

(1692-1693) series of witchcraft trials launched after group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts claim to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town

Question 10

Leisurer’s rebellion

Answer 10

(1689-1691) armed conflict between aspiring merchants led by Jacob leisure and the ruling elite of New York

Question 11

Indentured servants

Answer 11

Migrants who exchange transatlantic passage bind themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service (4-7years)