The American Pageant Twelfth Edition Guidebook Vocabulary
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| 598989684 | headright | The right to acquire a certain amount of land granted to the person who finances the passage of a laborer. | 1 | |
| 598989685 | disfranchise | To take away the right to vote. | 2 | |
| 598989686 | civil war | Any conflict between the citizens or inhabitants of the same country. | 3 | |
| 598989687 | tidewater | The territory adjoining water affected by tides- that is, near the seacoast or coastal rivers. | 4 | |
| 598989688 | middle passage | That portion of a slave ship's journey in which slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas. It was an experience for which humans beings were branded and chained, and which only 80 percent survived. | 5 | |
| 598989689 | fertility | The ability to mate and produce abundant young. | 6 | |
| 598989690 | menial | Fit for servants; humble or low. | 7 | |
| 598989691 | militia | An armed force of citizens called out only in emergencies. | 8 | |
| 598989692 | hierarchy | A social group arranged in ranks or classes. | 9 | |
| 598989693 | corporation | A group or institution granted legal rights to carry on certain specified activities. | 10 | |
| 598989694 | jeremiad | A sermon or prophecy recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, and calling for repentance. | 11 | |
| 598989695 | lynching | The illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law. | 12 | |
| 598989696 | hinterland | An inland region set back from a port, river, or seacoast. | 13 | |
| 598989697 | social structure | The basic pattern of the distribution of status and wealth in a society. | 14 | |
| 598989698 | blue blood | Of noble or upper-class descent. | 15 | |
| 598989699 | families | Early Maryland and Virginia settlers had difficulty creating them and even more difficulty making them last. | 16 | |
| 598989700 | disease | Primary cause of death among tobacco-growing settlers. | 17 | |
| 598989701 | indentured servants | Immigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor. These immigrants were the primary laborers in the early southern colonies until the 1680s. | 18 | |
| 598989702 | headright system | Maryland and Virginia's system of granting land to anyone who would pay trans-Atlantic passage for laborers. | 19 | |
| 598989703 | hanging | Fate of many of Nathaniel Bacon's followers, though not of Bacon himself. | 20 | |
| 598989704 | Rhode Island | American colony that was home to the Newport slave market and many slave traders. | 21 | |
| 598989705 | Royal African Company | English company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade in 1698. This loss led to free-enterprise expansion on the business. | 22 | |
| 598989706 | Gullah | African American dialect that blended English with Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa. | 23 | |
| 598989707 | slave revolts | Uprisings that occurred in New York City in 1712 and in South Carolina in 1739. | 24 | |
| 598989708 | FFVs | First Families of Virgina; wealthy extended clans like the Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons that dominated politics in the most populous colony. | 25 | |
| 598989709 | early twenties | The approximate marriage age of most New England women. | 26 | |
| 598989710 | town meeting | The basic local political institution of New England, in which all freemen gathered to elect officials and debate local affairs. | 27 | |
| 598989711 | Half-Way Covenant | Formula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion. It helped erase the earlier Puritan distinction between the converted "elect" and other members of society. | 28 | |
| 598989712 | Salem Witch Trials | Late seventeenth-century judicial event that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige. This phenomena was started by adolescent girls' accusations that ended with the deaths of twenty people. | 29 | |
| 598989713 | farming | The primary occupation of most seventeenth-century Americans. | 30 | |
| 598989714 | Chesapeake | Virginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements. | 31 | |
| 598989715 | Nathaniel Bacon | Agitator who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government. | 32 | |
| 598989716 | Governor Berkeley | Colonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge. | 33 | |
| 598989717 | Ringshout | West African religious rite, retained by African Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher. | 34 | |
| 598989718 | New York City slave revolt of 1712 | Major middle-colonies rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths. | 35 | |
| 598989719 | Lees, Fitzhughs, and Washingtons | Some of the "FFVs" who controlled the House of Burgesses in colonial Virginia. | 36 | |
| 598989720 | "New England conscience" | The legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans. | 37 | |
| 598989721 | Harvard | The oldest college in America, originally based on the Puritan commitment to an educated ministry. | 38 | |
| 598989722 | William and Mary | The oldest college in the South, founded in 1793. | 39 | |
| 598989723 | Leisler's Rebellion | Small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants. | 40 |
