American Pageant Chapter 4 Vocab Flashcards

Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 4 of the 13th edition of the American Pageant.

1142221739	Headright System	Encouraged the importation of servant workers. Whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to acquire fifty acres of land	1
1142221740	Middle Passage	Journey in which the slaves were brought across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. About 20% of the captives died on this brutal journey	2
1142221741	Bacon's Rebellion	Mostly made up of landless, white males who had been forced to the "backcountry." Murdered Natives, and rebelled for a long time.	3
1142221742	Half-Way Covenant	Modified the agreement between the church and its followers to admit to baptism the unconverted children of existing members	4
1142221743	Governor Berkeley	Governor of Virginia, had a policy that favored Native Americans, refused to retaliate against Natives, led to Bacon's Rebellion.	5
1142221744	Indentured Servants	In exchange for a transatlantic passage, English farmers desperate for employment worked on the plantations free of charge for several years.	6
1142221745	Salem Witch Trials	Late seventeenth-century "hunt" that inflamed popular feelings, led to the deaths of twenty people, and weakened the Puritan clergy's prestige.	7