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| The right to acquire a certain amount of land granted to the person who finances the passage of a laborer. | ||
| To take away the right to vote. | ||
| Any confict between the citizens or inhabitants of the same country. | ||
| The territory adjoining water affected by tides--that is, near the seacoast or coastal rivers. | ||
| That portion of a slave ship's journey in which slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas, slaves were branded and chained,and only 80 percent survived. | ||
| The ability to mate and produce abundant young. | ||
| fit for servants; humble or low. | ||
| An armed force of citizens called out only in emergencies. | ||
| A social group arranged in ranks or classes. | ||
| A group or institution granted legal rights to carry on certain specified activities. | ||
| A sermon or prophecy recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance. | ||
| The illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law. | ||
| An inland region set back from a port, river, or seacoast. | ||
| The basic pattern of the distribution of status and wealth in a society. | ||
| Of noble or upper-class descent | ||
| contained far more men than women. | ||
| landowners who paid the transatlanic passage for indentured servants. | ||
| the poverty and discontent of many single young men unable to acquire land. | ||
| planters were no longer able to rely on white indentured servants as a labor force. | ||
| a combination of several African and American cultures. | ||
| wealthy planters. | ||
| a professional class of lawyers and financiers was slow to develope. | ||
| they feared that separate property rights for women would undercut the unity of married couples. | ||
| was mandatory for any town with more than fifty families. | ||
| the development of basic democracy in the New England town meeting. | ||
| enjoyed longer lives and more stable families. | ||
| the town. | ||
| baptism but not "full communion" to people who had not had a conversion experience. | ||
| from families associated with Salem's burgeoning market economy. | ||
| their extensive introduction of livestock. | ||
| Early Maryland and Virginia settlers had difficulty creating them and even more difficulty making them last | ||
| Primary cause of death among tobacco-growing settlers | ||
| Immigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor. Primary laborers in early southern colonies until the 1680s. | ||
| Maryland and Virginia's system of granting land to anyone who would pay trans-Atlantic passage for laboreres. | ||
| Fate of many of Nathaniel Bacon's followers, though not of Bacon himself. | ||
| American colony that was home to the Newport slave market and many slave traders. | ||
| Organization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free-enterprise expansion of the business. | ||
| African-American dialect that blended English with Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa. | ||
| Uprisings that occurred in New York City in 1712 and in South Carolina in 1739. | ||
| Wealthy extended clans like the Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons that dominated politics in the most populous colony. | ||
| Approximate marriage age of most New England women. | ||
| The basic local political instituion of New England, in which all freemen gathered to elect officials and debate local affairs. | ||
| Formula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion. | ||
| Late seventeenth-century judicial event that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige. | ||
| Primary occupation of most seventeenth-century Americans. | ||
| Virginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements. | ||
| Agitator who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage agains Indians and colonial government. | ||
| Colonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge. | ||
| West African religious rite, retained by African-Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher. | ||
| Major middle-colonies rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths. | ||
| The legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans. | ||
| The oldest college in America, originally based on the Puritan commitment to an educated ministry. | ||
| The oldest college in the South, founded in 1793 | ||
| Small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants. | ||
| 1. planters 2. small land owning farmers 3. free laborers 4. indentured servants 5. slaves | ||
| The first colony to pass laws for education. | ||
| fishing, lumber, and non-agricultural commodities. |
