Unit 2 (1607- 1754) (chapters 4-8) Flashcards
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Headright system
Def: 1618- Jamestown, Virginia. introduced to solve labor shortage. Tobacco economy.
Sig: colonists already in Virginia were granted 100 acres of land. New people that paid there own passage received 50 acres. Indentured servants worked under these people (couldn’t pay for passage). Land ownership = a reason to work hard.
Middle passage
Def: transatlantic voyage the brought slaves to the new world.
Sig: slave trade with Africa (nearby)
Slave codes
Def: 1700s. Limited rights.
Sig: gave almost absolute authority to white masters. Color determined if someone was subject to slave codes- racism.
House of burgesses
Def: 1619. First legislative assembly. In Virginia.
Sig: set up by England to make laws and taxes. (Could veto acts). Set up for future parliaments to be established.
William and Mary
Def: founded after the king and queen, one of first colonial colleges.
Sig: James Blair was the first president of the college. Founded as an Anglican institution.
Harvard university
Def: 1636. Vote of Massachusetts bay colony.
Sig: created to train Puritan ministers.
Town meetings
Def: town wide meeting to decide on issues. Choose group of people to govern the town.
Sig: restricted to adult male residents.
Jeremiad
Def: 1600s. NEW type of sermon from Puritan leaders.
Sig: preachers noticed decline in rel. devotions in second generation. Focused on teachings of Jeremiah
Halfway covenant
Def: NEW formula to church membership. Church baptisms but not full communion.
Sig: unconverted children of existing members= higher membership.
Religious purity
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Salem witch trials
Def: 1692- 1693. Witch trials. Launched after girls in Salem, Massachusetts claimed women had bewitched them.
Sig: twenty put to death. Governor of Massachusetts ends it because his wife is accused of witch craft.
Calvinism
Def: 1500s. Set of beliefs Puritans followed. John Calvin.
Sig: pre destination. Calvinists want to practice religions -> war between French Calvinists.
William Berkley
Def: Royal governor of Virginia.
Sig: Adopted policies that favored large planters and neglected the needs of recent settlers in the ‘backcountry.’ His shortcomings led to Bacon’s Rebellion
Nathanial bacon
Def: led Bacon’s Rebellion of 1675.
Sig: Conducts a series of raids and massacres in Indian villages against Governor Berkeley’s orders.
Nathanial Hawthorne
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Def: author of the Scarlett letter
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Paxton boys
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Def: March on Philadelphia in 1764, protesting Quaker tolerance of Indians.
Sig: scots- Irish
Regulation movement
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Molasses act
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Congregational church
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The great awakening
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Old lights
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New lights
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Bicameral legislature
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James Otis
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