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| 4798406215 | indentured servants | migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service. Migration addressed chronic labor shortage in colonies and facilitated settlement. | 0 | |
| 4798406216 | headright system | employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage importation of indentured servants; allowed individual to acquire fifty acres of land if he paid for labor's passage to colony. | 1 | |
| 4798406760 | William Berkeley | royal governor of Virginia; adopted policies that favored large planters and neglected needs of recent settlers in backcountry; shortcomings led to Bacon's Rebellion | 2 | |
| 4798407250 | Bacon's Rebellion | uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants led by planter Nathaniel Bacon; response to Governor Berkeley's refusal to protect them from Indian attacks, eventually grew into broader conflict between poor and planter elite. | 3 | |
| 4798407541 | Royal African Company | English joint stock company w/ state granted monopoly on colonial slave trade; supply of slaves to N. American colonies rose sharply once company lost its monopoly privileges. | 4 | |
| 4798407542 | The Middle Passage | transatlantic voyage between Africa and colonies; notoriously high mortality rates. | 5 | |
| 4798408092 | Slave Codes | 1662, set of laws defining racial slavery; established hereditary nature of slavery and limited rights + education of slaves | 6 | |
| 4798408093 | Congregational Church | self-governing Puritan congregations without hierarchical establishment of Anglican Church. | 7 | |
| 4798408520 | The Half-Way Covenant | agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children; signified waning of religious zeal among second and third generation Puritans. | 8 | |
| 4798408521 | Salem Witch Trials | series of trials launched after a group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts, claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town; put to an end by governor after his wife was accused. | 9 | |
| 4798410256 | Leisler's Rebellion | armed conflict between aspiring merchants led by Jacob Leisler + ruling elite of New York; wealthy colonists attempting to recreate European social structures in New World. | 10 |
