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227614071 | Indentured Servitude | Brought over for cheap labor (often unskilled criminals). Headwright System. Eventually caused riots | |
227614072 | Impressment | forcing people into service | |
227614073 | Birth Rates | Reproduction goes up (indentures servants) but many people are dying (south) | |
227614074 | Sex Ratio | getting better,matches england | |
227614075 | Infant Mortality Rates | many births but a high mortality rate | |
227614076 | Seasoning | People become immune to diseases over time | |
227614077 | Humoralism | 4 Humors (black bile, black bile, blood, and pglegm) When sick you have too much of one and it needs to be expulged | |
227614078 | Bleeding | most dangerous of humors and they make you bleed to get better | |
227614079 | Enlightenment | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions | |
227614080 | Role of Women Chesapeake | More important because so many people die and they often receive businesses/property | |
227614081 | Role of Women in NE | Less important. Male Dominated Families. Stability | |
227614082 | Middle Passage | The passage between Africa and the Caribbean | |
227614083 | Royal African Company of England | hold monopoly over slave trade for many years. high prices and low supply | |
227614084 | French Huguenots | Earliest French Calvinists, forced out of france when Edict is revoked | |
227614085 | Edict of Nantes (1598) | gave Calvinists own state in France but is revoked | |
227614086 | Louis XIV | French Sun King had wars with the germans | |
227614087 | Palatinate (Rhineland) | hurt the most in war because it is near germany then a very bad winter. go to colonies | |
227614088 | Pennsylvania Dutch | German-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania (germany sounds like douche) | |
227614089 | Moravians and Mennonites | go to quaker colones or SC with german speaking swiss | |
227614090 | Scotch-Irish (Presbyterians) | Scotch (lived in ireland Ulster) and kicked out. Not welcome in colonies so took land and suppress natives (NC, NJ, PA) | |
227614091 | Ulster | where scotch irish are from | |
227614092 | Catholic Highlanders | North Carolina immigrates (romans who were defeated) | |
227614093 | Presbyterian Lowlanders | NJ and PA (leave after rents raised) | |
227614094 | Irish Catholics | Migrate over long period | |
227614095 | Subsistence Farming | Farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village | |
227614096 | Inter-colonial Trade | extremely important/essential | |
227614097 | Slave Codes | laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people | |
227614098 | Indigo | Eliza Lucas experiments with W indian plant SC high ground (ready faster) | |
227614099 | Eliza Lucas | found Indigo | |
227614100 | Saugus Ironworks | Saugus, MA. established after deposit found, financial failure (brings english skills) | |
227614101 | Peter Hasenclever | German in North NJ, largest industrial enterprise (ironworks) | |
227614102 | Iron Act of 1750 | This act attempted to limit the production of colonial goods that competed with British exports. | |
227614103 | Tallow | hard fat rendered from sheep or cattle used to make candles | |
227614104 | Specie | gold or silver coins | |
227614105 | Triangular Trade | African Slaves to Caribbean; Slaves and molasses and sugar to colonies (rum made); raw materials and rum to england; rum to africa | |
227614106 | Navigation Acts | Laws 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. | |
227614107 | Consumerism | material goods-social status | |
227614108 | Agents of urban Merchants | Sell goods to people in colonies (door to door) | |
227614109 | Mount Vernon | George Washington's Virginia home; stocked with nice goods | |
227614110 | Social Mobility | Property owners and control of workforce=power (not set) | |
227614111 | Plantations | small but self contained communities, good and bad years | |
227614112 | Stratified Southern Society | Wealthy landowners are influence not aristoocracy | |
227614113 | Stono Rebellion 1739 | A rebellion that occurred on September 9, 1729 in South Carolina by slaves. killed whites and tried to escape to fl | |
227614114 | Passive Resistance | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate | |
227614115 | Mulatto | half african half white | |
227614116 | "Town Meeting" | elect men meet yearly and discuss | |
227614117 | Primogeniture | to pass land to first born son (not done in NE) | |
227614118 | Generation Gap | generations spread and make new towns and rivalries | |
227614119 | Salem Witch Trials | caused by diversity of towns. girls accuse people of witchcraft many women killed | |
227614120 | Voodoo | a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti) | |
227614121 | The (first) Great Awakening | people try to reinvent religion because they are losing their piety (old vs new conflict) | |
227614122 | Dutch Reformed | a calvanist denomination (NY and NJ) | |
227614123 | American Baptists | (Roger Williams was the first in America) Began in Rhode Island and believed in the idea of adult baptism. | |
227614124 | New France | Name of French colony in Canada catholic | |
227614125 | Jeremiads | Puritans who warned of losing piety | |
227614126 | Methodists/ John and Charles Wesley | founders of methodism in Georgia | |
227614127 | George Whitefield | a touring preacher | |
227614128 | Jonathan Edwards | preached of traditional puritianism | |
227614129 | "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | title of Jonathan Edward's most famous sermon | |
227614130 | Old Lights vs New Lights | old vs new religion | |
227614131 | Francis Bacon | English statesman and philosopher (ennlightenment) | |
227614132 | John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) and social contract | |
227614133 | Ben Franklin/Jefferson, Paine, Madison | Enlightened thinkers in colonies | |
227614134 | Public Schools | tried to make one in every town in MA but didnt work | |
227614135 | Literary Rates | higher than eng for both genders | |
227614136 | Colleges | John Harvard/William and Mary/Elihu Yale/TCNJ=Princeton/King's=Columbia/The Academy and College of Philadelphia=UPENN | |
227614137 | Copernicus, Newton | Astrology that Harvard is against (no reason) | |
227614138 | Cotton Mather and Smallpox | made up innoculations | |
227614139 | Innoculations | infect with dead cells to help immunity dangerous | |
227614140 | John Peter Zenger | in law suit in NY; attack on public figure but true | |
227614141 | Virtual Representation | British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members |