Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692
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| encouraged the formation of stable and long-lasting marriages | ||
| landowners who paid the transatlantic passage for indentured servants | ||
| the povery and discontent of many single young men unable to acquire land | ||
| planters were no longer able to rely on white indentured servants as a labor force | ||
| a combination of serveral African and American culture | ||
| wealthy planters | ||
| the rural church became the central focus of sourthern social and economic life | ||
| was madatory for any town with more than fity families | ||
| they feared that serperate property rights for woman would undercut the unity of married couples | ||
| the development of basic deomcracy in the New England town meeting. | ||
| enjoyed longer lives and more stable families | ||
| the town | ||
| baptism but not "full communion" to people who had not had a coversion expierence | ||
| from families associated with Salem's burgeoning market economy | ||
| beating trails through the woods as they pursued seasonal hunting and fishing. | ||
| Major middle colonies rebelion that caused thirty three deaths | ||
| helped erase the earlier Puritian distinction between the converted "elct" and other members of society | ||
| small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants | ||
| Primary laborers in early southern colonies until the 1680's | ||
| Experience for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80 percent survived | ||
| Author of a novel about the early New England practice of requiting adulters to wear the letter "A" | ||
| West African religious rite, retained by African Americans, in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacher | ||
| Phenomena started by adolescent girls' accusations that ended with the death of twenty people | ||
| wirginia-maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements | ||
| the legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans | ||
| Colonial Virginia official woh crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge | ||
| the oldest college in the South, founded in 1793 | ||
| organization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free enterprise expansion of the business | ||
| Agitator who led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government | ||
| the oldest college in America, originially based on the Puritian commitment |