Terms from chapter 4 of the American Pageant 15th edition AP US History textbook
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| 572350511 | Indentured servants | Poor, displaced workers sponsored to come to America and in return for their sponsorship work for a set number of years for the person who had paid their passage | |
| 572350512 | Headright system | If a colonist sponsored the passage of an indentured servant, under Virginia and Maryland law they were entitled to fifty free acres of land | |
| 572350513 | Bacon's Rebellion | Rebellion in Virginia by landless former indentured servants who had been denied their promised land after serving their time and "paying" for their passage | |
| 572350514 | Royal African Company | 1698 loses its monopoly on slave transport, leading enterprising Americans to join in on the lucrative slave trade industry | |
| 572350515 | Middle Passage | The most deadly portion of sailing between Africa and the Americas to be endured by slaves in transport- mortality rates were often high | |
| 572350516 | "Slave codes" | Beginning in Virginia, these codes made blacks and their children property of their white masters for life | |
| 572350517 | New York slave revolt | 1712- nine whites killed, 21 blacks executed brutally after the fact | |
| 572350518 | South Carolina slave revolt | 1739- more than 50 blacks along the Stono River tried to march to Spanish Florida where they would be free- stopped by local militia, killed | |
| 572350519 | Congregational Church | Puritan churches with strict internal governmental structures | |
| 572350520 | Jeremiad | Sermons by Puritan ministers that scolded their congregations for their waning piety | |
| 572350521 | Half-Way Covenant | Document that allowed grandchildren or children of church members into the church, regardless of if they'd had a TCE or not- lead to downfall of Puritanism | |
| 572350522 | Leisler's Rebellion | Uprising in New York wherein German Jacob Leisler took control of the colony's south for two years, reflecting colonial resentment with regards to the policies of King James II |
