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American Pageant 13th Edition Chapter 4 Flashcards

Vocab terms for chapter 4 of the american pageant.

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442283547DisenfranchiseTo take away the right to vote1
442283548JeremiadA sermon or prophecy recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance2
442283549LynchingThe illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law3
442283550Social StructureThe basic pattern of the distribution of status and wealth in a society4
442283551Blue BloodOf noble or upper-class descent5
442283552ColoniesEarly Maryland and Virginia settlers had difficulty creating them and even more difficulty making them last6
442283553DiseasePrimary cause of death among tobacco-growing settlers7
442283554Indentured ServantsImmigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor8
442283555Headright SystemMaryland and Virginia's system of offering 50 acres of land to anyone who would pay transatlantic passage for laborers; allowed early, successful settlers to quickly amass large tobacco planations9
442283556HangingFate of many of Nathaniel Bacon's followers, though not of Bacon himself10
442283557Rhode IslandAmerican colony that was home to the Newport slave market and many slave traders11
442283558Royal African CompanyEnglish company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade in 169812
442283559GullahAfrican-American dialect that blended English with Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa13
442283560RevoltsUprisings that occurred in New York City in 1712 and in South Carolina in 173914
442283561VirginiaWealthy extended clans like the Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons that dominated politics in this most populous colony15
442283562Their Early 20'sApproximate marriage age of most New England women16
442283563MeetinghouseThe basic local political institution of New England, in which all freemen gathered to elect officials and debate local affairs17
442283564The Half-Way CovenantFormula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion18
442283565Salem Witch TrialsLate seventeenth century judicial event that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige19
442283566FarmingPrimary occupation of most seventeenth-century Americans20
442283567ChesapeakeVirginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements21
442283568Indentured ServantsPrimary laborers in early southern colonies until the 1680s22
442283569Nathaniel BaconPerson who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersman on a rampage against Indians and colonial government23
442283570Governor BerkeleyColonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge24
442283571Royal African CompanyOrganization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free-enterprise expansion of the business25
442283572Middle PassageExperience for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80 percent survived26
442283573RingshoutWest African religious rite, retained by African-Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher.27
442283574New York City Slave Revolt of 1712Major middle-colonies' rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths; early sign that slaves were not always content with their position in society (Remember the Barbados Slave Code of 1661)28
442283575Nathaniel HawthorneAuthor of a novel, The Scarlet Letter, about the early New England practice of requiring adulterers to wear the letter "A"29
442283576New England conscienceThe legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans30
442283577HarvardThe oldest college in America, founded in 1636, which reflected Puritan commitment to an educated ministry31
442283578William & Marythe oldest college in the South, founded in 1693; named after the King and Queen installed after the Glorious Revolution and flight of former King James II32
442283579Salem Witch TrialsMassachusetts phenomena started by accusations of adolescent girls that ended in deaths of 20 people; reflected religious hysteria but also33
442283580Leisler's RebellionSmall New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants34
442283581MassachusettsThe second most populated colony at the time35
442283582MarylandThe third most populated colony at the time36
442283583Charles IIPerson who was angered at Governor Berkeley's harsh actions against Bacon's Rebellions leaders37
442283584Virginia and MarylandThe Chesapeake colonies38

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