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| 573020840 | Disfranchise | To take away the right to vote | |
| 573020842 | Jeremiad | A sermon or prophecy recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance. A sermon or prophecy recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance | |
| 573020845 | Lynching | The illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law | |
| 573020846 | Social Structure | The basic pattern of the distribution of status and wealth in a society | |
| 573020848 | Blue Blood | Of noble or upper-class descent | |
| 573020850 | Indentured Servants | Immigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor. A laborer bound to unpaid service to a master for a fixed term, in exchange for benefits such as transportation, tools, and clothes | |
| 573020853 | Rhode Island | American colony that was home to the Newport slave market and many slave traders | |
| 573020855 | Royal African Company | English company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade in 1698 | |
| 573020857 | Gullah | African-American dialect that blended English with Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa | |
| 573020859 | Meetinghouse | The basic local political institution of New England, in which all freemen gathered to elect officials and debate local affairs | |
| 573020861 | The Half-Way Covenant | Formula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion | |
| 573020863 | Salem Witch Trials | Late seventeenth century judicial event that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige | |
| 573020865 | Chesapeake | Virginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements | |
| 573020866 | Nathaniel Bacon | Person who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersman on a rampage against Indians and colonial government | |
| 573020868 | Governor Berkeley | Colonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge | |
| 573020870 | Royal African Company | Organization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free-enterprise expansion of the business | |
| 573020873 | Middle Passage | Experience for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80 percent survived | |
| 573020875 | Ringshout | West African religious rite, retained by African-Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher. | |
| 573020877 | New York City slave revolt of 1712 | Major middle-colonies' rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths | |
| 573020879 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Author of a novel about the early New England practice of requiring adulterers to wear the letter "A" | |
| 573020882 | New England conscience | The legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans | |
| 573020883 | Salem Witch Trials | Phenomena started by accusations of adolescent girls that ended in deaths of 20 people | |
| 573020886 | Leisler's Rebellion | Small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants | |
| 573020887 | Headright System | Maryland and Virginia's system of gaining land to anyone who would pay transatlantic passage for laborers. A way to attract immigrants; gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid their way and/or any plantation owner that paid an immigrant,s way; mainly a system in the southern colonies of a laborer | |
| 573020890 | Middle Passage | That portion of a slave ship's journey in which slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas | |
| 573020892 | Menial work (servitude) | Fit for servants; humble or low. ―But chiefly they performed the sweaty toil of clearing swamps | |
| 573020894 | Militia | A voluntary, nonprofessional armed force of citizens, usually called to military service only in emergencies | |
| 573020896 | Hierarchy | A social group arranged in ranks or classes | |
| 573020899 | Corporation | A private group or institution to which the government grants legal rights to carry on certain specified activities | |
| 573020901 | William Berkeley | British colonial governor of Virginia from 1642-52. He showed that he had favorites in his second term which led to the Bacon's rebellion in 1676 , which he ruthlessly suppressed | |
| 573020903 | Bacon's Rebellion | In 1676, Bacon, a young planter led a rebellion against people who were friendly to the Indians. In the process he torched Jamestown, Virginia and was murdered by Indians | |
| 573020905 | Leisler's Rebellion | 1689-1691, an ill-fated bloody insurgency in New York City took place between landholders and merchants | |
| 573020907 | Halfway Covenant | A Puritan church policy; In 1662, the Halfway Covenant allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church | |
| 573020909 | Freedom Dues | Bonus given to indentured servants at the end of their term: corn, clothes, and a little land sometimes | |
| 573020911 | Governor Berkeley | Governor whose refusal to respond to First American attacks led to Bacon's Rebellion | |
| 573020913 | Nathaniel Bacon | Frontiersman who led a 1000 man rebellion against William Berkeley; died of disease in the middle of the rebellion | |
| 573020915 | Royal African Company | First slave trade company; established 1672 | |
| 573020916 | Middle Passage | The journey of slaves from Africa to America | |
| 573020917 | Slave Codes | Laws that defined the harsh treatment of slaves | |
| 573020918 | Chattel Slavery | Slavery across generations | |
| 573020919 | Cotton Mather | Influential New England Puritan minister, notable for his role in the Salem witch trials. He believed witchcraft existed, and it was affiliated with abominations. |
