Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 4 of the 13th edition of the American Pageant.
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| 1142221739 | Headright System | Encouraged the importation of servant workers. Whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to acquire fifty acres of land | 1 | |
| 1142221740 | Middle Passage | Journey in which the slaves were brought across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. About 20% of the captives died on this brutal journey | 2 | |
| 1142221741 | Bacon's Rebellion | Mostly made up of landless, white males who had been forced to the "backcountry." Murdered Natives, and rebelled for a long time. | 3 | |
| 1142221742 | Half-Way Covenant | Modified the agreement between the church and its followers to admit to baptism the unconverted children of existing members | 4 | |
| 1142221743 | Governor Berkeley | Governor of Virginia, had a policy that favored Native Americans, refused to retaliate against Natives, led to Bacon's Rebellion. | 5 | |
| 1142221744 | Indentured Servants | In exchange for a transatlantic passage, English farmers desperate for employment worked on the plantations free of charge for several years. | 6 | |
| 1142221745 | Salem Witch Trials | Late seventeenth-century "hunt" that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige. | 7 |
