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Society and Culture in Provincial America

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227614071Indentured ServitudeBrought over for cheap labor (often unskilled criminals). Headwright System. Eventually caused riots
227614072Impressmentforcing people into service
227614073Birth RatesReproduction goes up (indentures servants) but many people are dying (south)
227614074Sex Ratiogetting better,matches england
227614075Infant Mortality Ratesmany births but a high mortality rate
227614076SeasoningPeople become immune to diseases over time
227614077Humoralism4 Humors (black bile, black bile, blood, and pglegm) When sick you have too much of one and it needs to be expulged
227614078Bleedingmost dangerous of humors and they make you bleed to get better
227614079Enlightenmenta movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
227614080Role of Women ChesapeakeMore important because so many people die and they often receive businesses/property
227614081Role of Women in NELess important. Male Dominated Families. Stability
227614082Middle PassageThe passage between Africa and the Caribbean
227614083Royal African Company of Englandhold monopoly over slave trade for many years. high prices and low supply
227614084French HuguenotsEarliest French Calvinists, forced out of france when Edict is revoked
227614085Edict of Nantes (1598)gave Calvinists own state in France but is revoked
227614086Louis XIVFrench Sun King had wars with the germans
227614087Palatinate (Rhineland)hurt the most in war because it is near germany then a very bad winter. go to colonies
227614088Pennsylvania DutchGerman-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania (germany sounds like douche)
227614089Moravians and Mennonitesgo to quaker colones or SC with german speaking swiss
227614090Scotch-Irish (Presbyterians)Scotch (lived in ireland Ulster) and kicked out. Not welcome in colonies so took land and suppress natives (NC, NJ, PA)
227614091Ulsterwhere scotch irish are from
227614092Catholic HighlandersNorth Carolina immigrates (romans who were defeated)
227614093Presbyterian LowlandersNJ and PA (leave after rents raised)
227614094Irish CatholicsMigrate over long period
227614095Subsistence FarmingFarming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village
227614096Inter-colonial Tradeextremely important/essential
227614097Slave Codeslaws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people
227614098IndigoEliza Lucas experiments with W indian plant SC high ground (ready faster)
227614099Eliza Lucasfound Indigo
227614100Saugus IronworksSaugus, MA. established after deposit found, financial failure (brings english skills)
227614101Peter HasencleverGerman in North NJ, largest industrial enterprise (ironworks)
227614102Iron Act of 1750This act attempted to limit the production of colonial goods that competed with British exports.
227614103Tallowhard fat rendered from sheep or cattle used to make candles
227614104Speciegold or silver coins
227614105Triangular TradeAfrican Slaves to Caribbean; Slaves and molasses and sugar to colonies (rum made); raw materials and rum to england; rum to africa
227614106Navigation ActsLaws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
227614107Consumerismmaterial goods-social status
227614108Agents of urban MerchantsSell goods to people in colonies (door to door)
227614109Mount VernonGeorge Washington's Virginia home; stocked with nice goods
227614110Social MobilityProperty owners and control of workforce=power (not set)
227614111Plantationssmall but self contained communities, good and bad years
227614112Stratified Southern SocietyWealthy landowners are influence not aristoocracy
227614113Stono Rebellion 1739A rebellion that occurred on September 9, 1729 in South Carolina by slaves. killed whites and tried to escape to fl
227614114Passive Resistancepeaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
227614115Mulattohalf african half white
227614116"Town Meeting"elect men meet yearly and discuss
227614117Primogenitureto pass land to first born son (not done in NE)
227614118Generation Gapgenerations spread and make new towns and rivalries
227614119Salem Witch Trialscaused by diversity of towns. girls accuse people of witchcraft many women killed
227614120Voodooa religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti)
227614121The (first) Great Awakeningpeople try to reinvent religion because they are losing their piety (old vs new conflict)
227614122Dutch Reformeda calvanist denomination (NY and NJ)
227614123American Baptists(Roger Williams was the first in America) Began in Rhode Island and believed in the idea of adult baptism.
227614124New FranceName of French colony in Canada catholic
227614125JeremiadsPuritans who warned of losing piety
227614126Methodists/ John and Charles Wesleyfounders of methodism in Georgia
227614127George Whitefielda touring preacher
227614128Jonathan Edwardspreached of traditional puritianism
227614129"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"title of Jonathan Edward's most famous sermon
227614130Old Lights vs New Lightsold vs new religion
227614131Francis BaconEnglish statesman and philosopher (ennlightenment)
227614132John LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) and social contract
227614133Ben Franklin/Jefferson, Paine, MadisonEnlightened thinkers in colonies
227614134Public Schoolstried to make one in every town in MA but didnt work
227614135Literary Rateshigher than eng for both genders
227614136CollegesJohn Harvard/William and Mary/Elihu Yale/TCNJ=Princeton/King's=Columbia/The Academy and College of Philadelphia=UPENN
227614137Copernicus, NewtonAstrology that Harvard is against (no reason)
227614138Cotton Mather and Smallpoxmade up innoculations
227614139Innoculationsinfect with dead cells to help immunity dangerous
227614140John Peter Zengerin law suit in NY; attack on public figure but true
227614141Virtual RepresentationBritish governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members

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