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| 5077334896 | Indentured servants | displaced farmers coming to the colonies to work for several years and "received" parcels of land and some money at the end (3/4 of the immigrants to the colonies were indentured servants) | 0 | |
| 5077334897 | Headright system | Those who paid for the passage of a laborer got 50 acres of land | 1 | |
| 5077334899 | Governor of Virginia in 1676 | William Berkeley | 2 | |
| 5077334900 | Bacon's Rebellion (Causes, Events, Effects) | Primary Source Document | 3 | |
| 5077334904 | African slavery (characteristics) | - Black slaves outnumbered white servants in plantation colonies by 1680s - Royal African Company - lost charter to monopolize carrying African slaves to the colonies - Rhode Island rushed to trading slave industry *- Slaves captured from West African tribes and traded to colonists* | 4 | |
| 5077334905 | Middle Passage | - Passage from Africa to the West - The death rate was 20% - Survivors sold in auctions in major port cities | 5 | |
| 5077334906 | Triangular trade and what was traded |  | 6 | |
| 5077334907 | Barbados Slave codes made... | Primary Source | 7 | |
| 5077334910 | Slave life in the *Deep South* | - Climate was hostile to health - Labor was life-draining - South Carolina rice and indigo plantations - male Africans worked then died - Only new slaves could sustain population | 8 | |
| 5077334911 | Slave life in the *Chesapeake Region* | - Tobacco was less demanding - Size and proximity allowed more contact with friends and relatives - 1720 - female population in Chesapeake bay rose to make family life possible - Procreation of fertility and new imports for population | 9 | |
| 5077334915 | NYC Slave revolt | 1712 - Death of 12 whites and 21 blacks - Some burned at stake over slow fire | 10 | |
| 5077334916 | Stono River Rebellion | 1739 - Tried to march to Spanish Florida but were stopped by local militia - 50 Southern Carolina blacks | 11 | |
| 5077334918 | Southern colonies social class |  | 12 | |
| 5077334919 | Top of social group (characteristics) | Plantation owners - monopolized political power - Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons were major names in the social class - Possessed Virginia real estate - Dominated House of Burgess - Before Revolutionary War, 70% of leaders of VA legislature came from families in VA before 1690s (FFVs) - Usually labored over plantation issues and worked extremely hard | 13 | |
| 5077334921 | Largest social group | Small farmers - Tilled modest plots - Owned maybe 1-2 slaves - Ragged existence | 14 | |
| 5077334922 | Lower social group than small farmers | Landless whites who were former indentured servants and never got their payment | 15 | |
| 5077334924 | Issues with Southern cities | - Few cities, so water provided most transportation - Economy revolved around plantations - Professional class was slow to emerge - Family burial plots in the South occurred because the roads were bad for funeral parties | 16 | |
| 5077334925 | New England families - factors that contributed to better conditions | - Clean water and cooler temperatures (less disease) - Immigrants added 10 years when settling in New England - 70-year life expectancy for Puritan colonists - People reproduced - Migrated as families - *TIGHTLY-KNIT FAMILIES* | 17 | |
| 5077334926 | Characteristics of New England families | - Mothers had many kids - Strong social characteristics - Children received habits of obedience and guidance from their parents and grandparents - Family stability reflected in low premarital pregnancy rates | 18 | |
| 5077334927 | Southern vs. New England property rights | — *South* - men died young in South, leaving wife as a widow. The wife was allowed to retain separate title to her property and got her husband's property rights to herself when he died — *New England* - Puritan lawmakers feared that recognizing separate property rights acknowledged conflicting interests - women gave up property rights when married | 19 | |
| 5077334931 | Life in the New England Towns | - Tight-knit communities - Puritans close together - New towns legally chartered by colonial authorities | 20 | |
| 5077334932 | New town-founding process | - Land distributed by proprietors after charter was issued from colonial authority - Moved to designated place with family and laid out the plan of the town - Each family got wood lot for fuel, a tract for growing crops, and another for pasturing animals | 21 | |
| 5077334935 | Half-way Covenant | "allowed the children of baptized but unconverted church members to be baptized and thus become church members and have political rights" - Weakened distinction between elect and others - Weaker spiritual purity | 22 | |
| 5077334938 | Salem Witch Trials | - 19 hung, 1 pressed to death, and 2 dogs hung - *Most accused witches came from wealthy families* - *Most accusers came from subsistence farming families* - Showed tension between classes | 23 | |
| 5077334942 | Economy of New England | *Fishing* - cod off of coast of Newfoundland *Lumber* *Shipbuilding* - more exports of cod led to building better ships | 24 | |
| 5077334944 | Leisler's Rebellion | Caused by animosity between landholders and merchants | 25 |
