American Pageant Chapter 4: APUSH IDs Flashcards

AP US History identifications for The American Pageant Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century

891491002	Freedom dues	given at the end of an indentured servent's employment, for example food, a suit of clothes, and occasionally land
891491003	New England Conscience	result of Puritan heritage, high idealism, inspired reformers and abolitionists
891491004	Yankee ingenuity	idea of an orderly New England town, with simple small-town democracy, improvisation, and adaptation
891491005	Bacon's Rebellion	mainly angry young freemen, attacked Indians, chased out Berkeley and burned Jamestown, rebellion ended with Bacon's death
891491006	Established churches	Congregational Church and Anglican Church, recognized by the government and supported by taxes
891491007	Gentry	upper-class, lordly planters
891491008	Governor Berkeley	governor of Virginia, crushed Bacon's Rebellion
891491009	Gullah	language and culture of the South Carolina sea islands
891491010	Midwifery	assisting with childbirth, virtual female monopoly, often included networks of women
891491011	Halfway Convenant	weakened the distinction between elect and others, allowed children of church members to be baptised but not given full membership
891491012	Headright System	masters who paid the passage of a laborer received 50 acres in Virginia and Maryland
891491013	Jeremiads	inspired by the prophet Jeremiah, doomsday preachers scolding their parishes for turning away from God
891491014	Leisler's Rebellion	rebellion against lordly landowners, by aspiring merchant class, took place in NYC, was a result of upper class trying to recreate the class system of Europe
891491015	Middle Passage	route and journey of slave ships from Africa to North America
891491016	Nathaniel Bacon	Virginia planter, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, died of disease before the rebellion ended
891491017	Royal African Company	chartered in 1672, held a monopoly on slave trade until 1698
891491018	Royal Charter	used to establish colonies under the control of the crown
891491019	Salem Witch Trials	Puritan girls accused village women of bewitching them, led to a witchhunt hysteria that left twenty people dead
891491020	Stono Rebellion	largest colonial rebellion of slaves against slave owners, took place near the Stono River in South Carolina
891491021	Town Meetings	form of colonial democracy in small towns, took place in a communal meeting house