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Key Terms and People
Chapter 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| indentured servant | migrants who in exchange for transatlantic passage |
| headright system | employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage the importation of indentured servants, the system allowed an individual to acquire 50 acres of land if he paid for a laborers passage to the colonies |
| Bacon Rebellion | 1676:uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers & indentured servants led by planter Nathanial Bacon initially a response to Governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect the backcountry settlers from Indian attacks |
| Royal African Company | English joint stock company that joined a state-granted monopoly on the colonial slave trade from 1672 until 1698; the supply of slaves rose sharply and then the company lost its monopoly |
| middle passage | transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies; death rates were high |
| slave code | set of laws defining racial slavery beginning in 1662 including establishing the heredity nature of slavery, and legally limiting the rights and learning of slaves |
| New York slave revolt | (1712): uprising of a dozen slaves that resulted in the deaths of nine whites and the brutal execution of twenty-one blacks |
| South Carolina slave revolt (Stono River) | (1739): uprising also known as the Stono Rebellion of more than 50 South Carolina blacks along the Stono River; slaves attempted to reach Spanish Florida but stopped by the SC militia |
| Congregational Church | self gov Puritan congregations without hierarchal establishment of the Angelic Church |
| Jeremiad | often fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners first delivered in New England in the middle 17th century; named after doom-saying prophet Jeremiah |
| Half-Way Covanant | (1662): agreement to allow unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children; symbolized waning religious zeal in second in third generation |
| Salem Witch Trials | (1692-1693)series of witchcraft trials launched after a group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts, claimed to have been bewitched by a certain older woman of the town; twenty individuals were put to death before the trials ended by the gov of Mass |
| Leisler's Rebellion | (1689-1691): armed conflict led by aspiring merchants led by Jacob Leisler and the running elite of NY; one of many uprising in the colonies when rich land owners tried to make European social classes in the New World |
| William Berkeley | a. Virginia Governor b. Friendly with Indians c. Chased out of Jamestown by Indians and settlers alike d. Crushed rebellion by hanging 20 rebels |
| Nathaniel Bacon | a. Bacon's Rebellion 1676 b. Chased Governor William Berkeley from land c. Suddenly died from disease |
| Anthony Johnson | slave that bought his freedom and later became a slave holder |
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