American Pageant Fourteenth Edition Chapter 4 vocab
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| 586636532 | Bacon's Rebellion (1676) | Uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants led by planter Nathaniel Bacon; initially a response to Governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect backcountry settlers from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a broader conflict between impoverished settlers and the planter elite. | 1 | |
| 586636533 | Congregational Church | Self-governing Puritan congregations without the hierarchical establishment of the Anglican Church. | 2 | |
| 586636534 | Half-Way Covenant (1662) | Agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children. It signified a waning of religious zeal among second and third generation Puritans. | 3 | |
| 586636535 | headright system | Employed in the Tobacco colonies to encourage the importation of indentured servants, the system allowed an individual to acquire fifty acres of land if he paid for a laborer's passage to the colony. | 4 | |
| 586636536 | indentured servants | Migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service, typically between four and seven years. Their migration addressed the chronic labor shortage in the colonies and facilitated settlement. | 5 | |
| 586636537 | jeremiad | Often-fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners first delivered in New England in the mid-seventeenth century; named after the doom-saying Old Testament prophet Jeremiah. | 6 | |
| 586636538 | Leisler's Rebellion (1689-1691) | Armed conflict between aspiring merchants led by Jacob Leisler and the ruling elite of New York. One of many uprisings that erupted across the colonies when wealthy colonists attempted to recreate European social structures in the New World. | 7 | |
| 586636539 | middle passage | Transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies. Mortality rates were notoriously high. | 8 | |
| 586636540 | New York slave revolt (1712) | Uprising of approximately two dozen slaves that resulted in the deaths of nine whites and the brutal execution of twenty-one participating blacks. | 9 | |
| 586636541 | Royal African Company | English joint stock company that enjoyed a state-granted monopoly on the colonial slave trade from 1672 until 1698. The supply of slaves to the North American colonies rose sharply once the company lost its monopoly privileges. | 10 | |
| 586636542 | Salem witch trials (1692-1693) | Series of witchcraft trials launched after a group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town. Twenty individuals were put to death before the trials were put to an end by the Governor of Massachusetts. | 11 | |
| 586636543 | South Carolina slave revolt (Stono River) (1739) | Uprising, also known as the Stono Rebellion, of more than fifty South Carolina blacks along the Stono River. The slaves attempted to reach Spanish Florida but were stopped by the South Carolina militia. | 12 |
