AP US History: Chapter 4 Terms Flashcards

4798406215	indentured servants	migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service. Migration addressed chronic labor shortage in colonies and facilitated settlement.	0
4798406216	headright system	employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage importation of indentured servants; allowed individual to acquire fifty acres of land if he paid for labor's passage to colony.	1
4798406760	William Berkeley	royal governor of Virginia; adopted policies that favored large planters and neglected needs of recent settlers in backcountry; shortcomings led to Bacon's Rebellion	2
4798407250	Bacon's Rebellion	uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants led by planter Nathaniel Bacon; response to Governor Berkeley's refusal to protect them from Indian attacks, eventually grew into broader conflict between poor and planter elite.	3
4798407541	Royal African Company	English joint stock company w/ state granted monopoly on colonial slave trade; supply of slaves to N. American colonies rose sharply once company lost its monopoly privileges.	4
4798407542	The Middle Passage	transatlantic voyage between Africa and colonies; notoriously high mortality rates.	5
4798408092	Slave Codes	1662, set of laws defining racial slavery; established hereditary nature of slavery and limited rights + education of slaves	6
4798408093	Congregational Church	self-governing Puritan congregations without hierarchical establishment of Anglican Church.	7
4798408520	The Half-Way Covenant	agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children; signified waning of religious zeal among second and third generation Puritans.	8
4798408521	Salem Witch Trials	series of trials launched after a group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts, claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town; put to an end by governor after his wife was accused.	9
4798410256	Leisler's Rebellion	armed conflict between aspiring merchants led by Jacob Leisler + ruling elite of New York; wealthy colonists attempting to recreate European social structures in New World.	10