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American Pageant 13th Edition Chapter 4 Flashcards

Vocab terms for chapter 4 of the american pageant.

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32476402DisfranchiseTo take away the right to vote0
32476406JeremiadA sermon or prophecy recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance1
32476407LynchingThe illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law2
32476408Social StructureThe basic pattern of the distribution of status and wealth in a society3
32476409Blue BloodOf noble or upper-class descent4
32477574ColoniesEarly Maryland and Virginia settlers had difficulty creating them and even more difficulty making them last5
32477575DiseasePrimary cause of death among tobacco-growing settlers6
32477576Indentured ServantsImmigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor7
32477577Headright SystemMaryland and Virginia's system of gaining land to anyone who would pay transatlantic passage for laborers8
32477578HangingFate of many of Nathaniel Bacon's followers, though not of Bacon himself9
32477579Rhode IslandAmerican colony that was home to the Newport slave market and many slave traders10
32477580Royal African CompanyEnglish company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade in 169811
32477581GullahAfrican-American dialect that blended English with Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa12
32477582RevoltsUprisings that occurred in New York City in 1712 and in South Carolina in 173913
32477583VirginiaWealthy extended clans like the Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons that dominated politics in this most populous colony14
32477584Their Early 20'sApproximate marriage age of most New England women15
32477585MeetinghouseThe basic local political institution of New England, in which all freemen gathered to elect officials and debate local affairs16
32477586The Half-Way CovenantFormula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion17
32477587Salem Witch TrialsLate seventeenth century judicial event that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige18
32477588FarmingPrimary occupation of most seventeenth-century Americans19
32477589ChesapeakeVirginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements20
32477590Indentured ServantsPrimary laborers in early southern colonies until the 1680s21
32477591Nathaniel BaconPerson who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersman on a rampage against Indians and colonial government22
32477592Governor BerkeleyColonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge23
32477593Royal African CompanyOrganization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free-enterprise expansion of the business24
32477594Middle PassageExperience for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80 percent survived25
32477595RingshoutWest African religious rite, retained by African-Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher.26
32477596New York City slave revolt of 1712Major middle-colonies' rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths27
32477597Nathaniel HawthorneAuthor of a novel about the early New England practice of requiring adulterers to wear the letter "A"28
32477598New England conscienceThe legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans29
32477599HarvardThe oldest college in America, which reflected Puritan commitment to an educated ministry30
32477600William & Marythe oldest college in the South, Founded in 1693 Half-Way Covenant -31
32477601Salem Witch TrialsPhenomena started by accusations of adolescent girls that ended in deaths of 20 people32
32477602Leisler's RebellionSmall New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants33
32477603MassachusettsThe second most populated colony at the time34
32477604MarylandThe third most populated colony at the time35
32477605Charles IIPerson who was angered at Governor Berkeley's actions36
32479547Virginia and MarylandThe Chesapeake colonies37

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