Chapter 4 Summary American Pageant 13th
Subject:
US History [1]
Chapter 4 Info Sheet
People
Governor William Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
Conflicts/Wars-
Bacon’s Rebellion- poor farmers vs. Berkley and Indians.
Crisis/Panics-
Disease in early English settlements making nuclear families hard to come by
“Middle Passage”
Slavery in the South
Religious Happenings
Half-way Covenant and the “jeremiad”
Salem Witch Trials
Land/Territorial Acquisitions-
New England soil was rocky
Settlers believed that purifying the soil by burning the forest was wasting the land. They took away the Indians land because they figured they didn’t want it because they burnt it.
Documents-
“Headright” System- whoever paid for an indentured servant got land
“slave codes”
Political Parties-