AMERICAN LIFE IN THE 17th CENTURY

Question 1

The headright system (in Virginia & Maryland)

Answer 1

-to encourage importation of workers
(whoever paid the passage of a laborer recieved the right to acquire fifty acres of land)
-provided labor for tobacco in Chesapeake.

Question 2

Cheasapeake( Viriginia and Maryland)

Answer 2

• ideal for tobacco cultivation

Question 3

Nathaniel Bacon

Answer 3

started the Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 4

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 4

• Their Ambition was to get Gov. William Berkeley to crack down Indians rather than fur trading.

Question 5

Middle Passage

Answer 5

captured African for west Africa were shipped over crammed boats on the grisly “MIDDLE PASSAGE” to West Indies.

Question 6

Stono River in ( South Carolina )

Answer 6

50 black arose uo and tried to escape slavery by walking to Spanish Florida.

Question 7

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 7

-In 1692, a few girls claimed to have been bewitched by a Carribean woman practicing voodoo.
-Innocent people were accused of being witches.

Question 8

Leisler’s Rebellion

Answer 8

An ill-starred and bloody insurgence that rocked NewYork.
-German American Merchant and Militia captian “Jacob Leisler” seized control of the southern NewYork.
- Colonial resentment against King James II

Question 9

Slave codes

Answer 9

Laws for slaves