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| 6077492700 | Indentured servants | Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |  | 0 |
| 6077492701 | Headright system | Colonial system of awarding a tract of land, usually fifty acres, to a person who paid for the passage of an indentured servant to the colonies. Some wealthy people in Virginia and other southern colonies accumulated huge tracts of land through this system. |  | 1 |
| 6077492702 | Bacon's Rebellion | An uprising of backcountry farmers who attacked Jamestown in 1676; led by a former indentured servant who wanted the Governor to provide protection against Native Americans; led to the decline of indentured servitude. |  | 2 |
| 6077492703 | Royal African Company | A trading entity chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. |  | 3 |
| 6077492704 | Middle Passage | The route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade |  | 4 |
| 6077492705 | New York Slave revolt | 1712 Uprising of approximately two dozen slaves that resulted in the deaths of nine whites and the brutal execution of 21 participating blacks |  | 5 |
| 6077492706 | South Carolina slave revolt (Stono) | 1739 -- more than 50 slaves tried to march to Spanish Florida but were stopped by local militia |  | 6 |
| 6077492707 | Congregation Church | The name eventually applied to the Puritans' established religious institution in Massachusetts and several other New England colonies. |  | 7 |
| 6077492708 | Jeremiad | Type of sermon that Puritan preachers used to scold the people for their waning purity and warn them about Hell. |  | 8 |
| 6077492709 | Half-Way Covenant | A Puritan church policy that allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members; Women soon made up a larger portion of Puritan congregations. |  | 9 |
| 6077492710 | Salem Witch Trials | A 1692 scandal where several girls in Massachusetts accused their neighbors of witchcraft. More than 100 people were tried as witches, and 19 women and one man were executed. An example of how paranoia can create hysteria. |  | 10 |
| 6077492711 | Jacob Leisler | Leader of a rebellion in which he seized control of lower New York from 1689 to 1691. The uprising, which occurred in the midst of Britain's "Glorious Revolution," reflected colonial resentment against the policies of King James II. Royal authority was restored in 1691 by British troops |  | 11 |
| 6077492712 | William Berkeley | A Governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favorite. He was governor from 1641-1652 and 1660-1677. He enacted friendly policies towards the Indians that led to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. |  | 12 |
| 6077492713 | Nathaniel Bacon | Planter who led a rebellion in 1676 against the governor of the Virginia Colony |  | 13 |
| 6077588252 | Glorious Revolution | Following the English Civil War, this event involved the British Parliament once again overthrowing their monarch in 1688-1689. James II was expelled and William and Mary were made king and queen. Marks the point at which Parliament made the monarchy powerless, gave themselves all the power, and wrote a bill of Rights. The whole thing was relatively peaceful and thus glorious. | 14 | |
| 6077673669 | Salutary Neglect | Throughout the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the English government did not enforce those trade laws that most harmed the colonial economy. The purpose was to ensure the loyalty of the colonists in the face of the French territorial and commercial threat in North America. The English ceased practicing this following British victory in the French and Indian War. | 15 |
