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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

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encouraged the formation of stable and long-lasting marriages
landowners who paid the transatlantic passage for indentured servants
the povery 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 serveral African and American culture
wealthy planters
the rural church became the central focus of sourthern social and economic life
was madatory for any town with more than fity families
they feared that serperate property rights for woman would undercut the unity of married couples
the development of basic deomcracy 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 coversion expierence
from families associated with Salem's burgeoning market economy
beating trails through the woods as they pursued seasonal hunting and fishing.
Major middle colonies rebelion that caused thirty three deaths
helped erase the earlier Puritian distinction between the converted "elct" and other members of society
small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants
Primary laborers in early southern colonies until the 1680's
Experience for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80 percent survived
Author of a novel about the early New England practice of requiting adulters to wear the letter "A"
West African religious rite, retained by African Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher
Phenomena started by adolescent girls' accusations that ended with the death of twenty people
wirginia-maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements
the legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans
Colonial Virginia official woh crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge
the oldest college in the South, founded in 1793
organization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free enterprise expansion of the business
Agitator who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government
the oldest college in America, originially based on the Puritian commitment

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