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| An uprising in the Virginia colony in 1670. Leader Nathaniel Bacon and a thousand other Virginian freemen & former indentured servants focused their frustration on the Natives. They were frustrated by Governor Berkeley's policy of amicable relations with the Natives, so they attacked any & all of the Natives, drove Governor Berkeley from Jamestown, and attempted to torch the capital. Once Bacon died from disease, the rebellion was quickly ended. | ||
| The route between the Western coast of Africa to the Caribbean, South America, and the Colonies that carried slaves. Often times a large number of slaves died during this journey because of the lack of sanitation and over-crowding of the ship. | ||
| A new form of sermon in the mid-17th century that originated in the Puritan community. The name coming from the Old testament prophet Jeremiah, these sermons were designed to warn people about being pious & faithful to God, as the number of conversions were supposedly decreasing. | ||
| In 1662, Puritans permitted the baptized children of church members into a "half-way" membership in the congregation and allowed them to baptize their children; they still could not vote or take communion because they were not part of the "elect". | ||
| In the Puritan community, it was a testimonial by an individual claiming that they had recieved God's grace and could therefore become part of the elect. | ||
| A mass hysteria that occured in Salem in 1692. It began when a group of teenage girls claimed that they had been "bewitched". In order to take any blame from themselves, they began to accuse other village women of being Witches. In all, twenty people were convicted, nineteen of whom were hung, and one was crushed to death. | ||
| An American term used to describe a population with many different ethicities. Early on in American history, there were several different types of European such as: English, German, French, Swiss, Irish, and Scottish. | ||
| A British law passed in 1773 to change a trade pattern in the American colonies by taxing molasses imported into colonies not ruled by Britain. Americans responded to this attempt to damage their international trade by bribing and smuggling. Their protest of this and other laws led to revolution. | ||
| This was a major religious revival in the colonies, which began in the 1730's with its leader being Jonathan Edwards. Edwards, and other preachers during this time such as George Whitefield, began to preach that individual free will, not divine decree, would decide a person's fate. Also, they believed that conversion should not be needed for Church membership. | ||
| The Zenger Case was a trial against the author of an article in a New York newspaper that criticized a corrupt British governor. Zenger was charged with sedition and libel, but he was acquitted. The event was a contribution to the adaptation of the policy of freedom of the press. |
