AP US History Chapter 4 Flashcards

5077334896	Indentured servants	displaced farmers coming to the colonies to work for several years and "received" parcels of land and some money at the end (3/4 of the immigrants to the colonies were indentured servants)	0
5077334897	Headright system	Those who paid for the passage of a laborer got 50 acres of land	1
5077334899	Governor of Virginia in 1676	William Berkeley	2
5077334900	Bacon's Rebellion (Causes, Events, Effects)	Primary Source Document	3
5077334904	African slavery (characteristics)	- Black slaves outnumbered white servants in plantation colonies by 1680s - Royal African Company - lost charter to monopolize carrying African slaves to the colonies - Rhode Island rushed to trading slave industry - Slaves captured from West African tribes and traded to colonists	4
5077334905	Middle Passage	- Passage from Africa to the West - The death rate was 20% - Survivors sold in auctions in major port cities	5
5077334906	Triangular trade and what was traded		6
5077334907	Barbados Slave codes made...	Primary Source	7
5077334910	Slave life in the Deep South	- Climate was hostile to health - Labor was life-draining - South Carolina rice and indigo plantations - male Africans worked then died - Only new slaves could sustain population	8
5077334911	Slave life in the Chesapeake Region	- Tobacco was less demanding - Size and proximity allowed more contact with friends and relatives - 1720 - female population in Chesapeake bay rose to make family life possible - Procreation of fertility and new imports for population	9
5077334915	NYC Slave revolt	1712 - Death of 12 whites and 21 blacks - Some burned at stake over slow fire	10
5077334916	Stono River Rebellion	1739 - Tried to march to Spanish Florida but were stopped by local militia - 50 Southern Carolina blacks	11
5077334918	Southern colonies social class		12
5077334919	Top of social group (characteristics)	Plantation owners - monopolized political power - Fitzhughs, Lees, and Washingtons were major names in the social class - Possessed Virginia real estate - Dominated House of Burgess - Before Revolutionary War, 70% of leaders of VA legislature came from families in VA before 1690s (FFVs) - Usually labored over plantation issues and worked extremely hard	13
5077334921	Largest social group	Small farmers - Tilled modest plots - Owned maybe 1-2 slaves - Ragged existence	14
5077334922	Lower social group than small farmers	Landless whites who were former indentured servants and never got their payment	15
5077334924	Issues with Southern cities	- Few cities, so water provided most transportation - Economy revolved around plantations - Professional class was slow to emerge - Family burial plots in the South occurred because the roads were bad for funeral parties	16
5077334925	New England families - factors that contributed to better conditions	- Clean water and cooler temperatures (less disease) - Immigrants added 10 years when settling in New England - 70-year life expectancy for Puritan colonists - People reproduced - Migrated as families - TIGHTLY-KNIT FAMILIES	17
5077334926	Characteristics of New England families	- Mothers had many kids - Strong social characteristics - Children received habits of obedience and guidance from their parents and grandparents - Family stability reflected in low premarital pregnancy rates	18
5077334927	Southern vs. New England property rights	— South - men died young in South, leaving wife as a widow. The wife was allowed to retain separate title to her property and got her husband's property rights to herself when he died — New England - Puritan lawmakers feared that recognizing separate property rights acknowledged conflicting interests - women gave up property rights when married	19
5077334931	Life in the New England Towns	- Tight-knit communities - Puritans close together - New towns legally chartered by colonial authorities	20
5077334932	New town-founding process	- Land distributed by proprietors after charter was issued from colonial authority - Moved to designated place with family and laid out the plan of the town - Each family got wood lot for fuel, a tract for growing crops, and another for pasturing animals	21
5077334935	Half-way Covenant	"allowed the children of baptized but unconverted church members to be baptized and thus become church members and have political rights" - Weakened distinction between elect and others - Weaker spiritual purity	22
5077334938	Salem Witch Trials	- 19 hung, 1 pressed to death, and 2 dogs hung - Most accused witches came from wealthy families - Most accusers came from subsistence farming families - Showed tension between classes	23
5077334942	Economy of New England	Fishing - cod off of coast of Newfoundland Lumber Shipbuilding - more exports of cod led to building better ships	24
5077334944	Leisler's Rebellion	Caused by animosity between landholders and merchants	25