The American Pageant 14th Edition
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| 550858385 | "Life is nasty, brutish, and short." | famous quote by Thomas Hobbs | |
| 550858386 | Principle Crop in Chesapeake Region | tobacco | |
| 550858387 | Indentured Servants | colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for 7 years and then were freed; less expensive than slaves | |
| 550858388 | Headright System | encouraged growth of the Chesapeake; if an aristocrat sponsored an indentured servant's passage to America, the aristocrat could purchase 50 acres land at a cheap price; meant land was being gobbled by the rich, and running out for the poor | |
| 550858389 | "freedom dues" | the money a master owed to his indentured servant after the servant's period of indentured servitude; included simple clothing, tools, and sometimes a parcel of land | |
| 550858390 | Governor William Berkeley | a British colonial governor of Virginia from 1642-1652; showed that he had favorites in his second term which led to the Bacon's rebellion in 1676 which he ruthlessly suppressed; had poor frontier defense | |
| 550858391 | Nathaniel Bacon | a farmer in the backcountry; his resentment of Berkeley and the unbalanced power of the Virginia government, lead to a rebellion, by him and other backcountry farmers | |
| 550858392 | Bacon's Rebellion | in 1676 many western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements; they formed an army, which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city; rebellion ended suddenly when their leader died of an illness | |
| 550858393 | The Royal African Company | slave trading monopoly based in London, until it opened up to all independent merchants, which soon caused hundreds of ships from all over England to compete with those in London; the number of slaves in North America skyrocketed | |
| 551072977 | 1619 | when the first slaves brought to Jamestown, Virginia; first slaves are sold in America | |
| 551072978 | the Middle Passage | journey of slaves from Africa, across the Atlantic, to the West Indies or colonial America; many slaves did not survive the trip | |
| 551072979 | "slave codes" | laws that controlled the lives of enslaved african americans and denied them basic rights | |
| 551072980 | West Coast of Africa | where the majority of the slaves sent to North America came from | |
| 551072981 | Principal Crops in South Carolina | rice and cotton | |
| 551072982 | Gullah | unique language created by blacks that combined English with other African dialects | |
| 551072983 | ringshout | West African religious rite, retained by African Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher | |
| 551072984 | Stono Rebellion | the most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period which occurred in 1739 in South Carolina; 100 African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed several whites then tried to escape to S. Florida; uprising was crushed and participants executed; main form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to go | |
| 551072985 | Four Levels of Society in Southern Colonies | Great Planters; Small Farmers; Landless Whites; Slaves | |
| 551072986 | FFV's | First Families of Virginia; a clutch of extended families who owned tracts and tracts of real estate and just about dominated the House of Burgesses | |
| 551072987 | Natural Advantages of New England Colonies | they had clean water, cool temperatures, few diseases, and lived together in groups as families | |
| 551072988 | Economically Secure Southern Women | the women were able to inherit their husband's land if he died; in the North, women couldn't inherit land | |
| 551072989 | Town/City Development in the North | more towns developed in the North because families traveled together and their were laws regarding how the town was developed | |
| 551072990 | "jeremiads" | new form of sermon at Puritan pulpit that scolded parishioners from their waning piety | |
| 551072991 | Harvard | in 1636, Massachusetts Puritans established this college to train men to become ministers | |
| 551072992 | "Half-Way Covenant" | troubled ministers announced a new formula for church membership in 1662 in which all people could come and participate in the church, even if they fell short of the "visible-saint" status and were somehow only half converted (with the exception of a few extremely hated groups) | |
| 551072993 | Salem Witch Hunts | early 1690s, a group of girls claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women; a hysterical witch-hunt that led to the executions of 20 people; witchcraft hysteria eventually ended in 1693 | |
| 551072994 | "worth a candle" | a phrase describing how few events were done during the night unless they were "_______" | |
| 551072995 | "Dukes don't emigrate" | the saying that people with wealth had no intentions of traveling and exposing their lives in the wilderness; mainly true for the high class of Europe who had no desire to move to the New World | |
| 551072996 | Leisler's Rebellion | people seized control of lower New York from 1689 to 1691; the uprising, which occurred in the midst of Britain's "Glorious Revolution," reflected colonial resentment against the policies of King James II; royal authority was restored in 1691 by British troops & their leader was hanged |
