chpt 4 identification and people
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Disfranchise | To take away the right to vote |
| Jeremiad | A sermon or prophecy recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance |
| Lynching | The illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law |
| Social Structure | The basic pattern of the distribution of status and wealth in a society |
| Blue Blood | Of noble or upper-class descent |
| 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 |
| Virginia | Wealthy extended clans like the Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons that dominated politics in this 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 |
| Massachusetts | The second most populated colony at the time |
| Maryland | The third most populated colony at the time |
| Charles II | Person who was angered at Governor Berkeley's actions |
| Virginia and Maryland | The Chesapeake colonies |
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