Chapter 04: American Life In The Seventeenth Century (1607-1692) Flashcards
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William Berkeley
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- Virginian governor who disliked wretched bachelors (poor, indebted, discontented, and armed)
- disliked by wretched bachelor’s for friendly relations with the Native Americans
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Nathanial Bacon
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- 29-year-old planter who led a 1676 rebellion of frontiersmen (wretched bachelors) against Berkley’s friendly relations with Natives
- in Virginia
- died suddenly of disease
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Anthony Johnson
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- 17th-century black slave who bought his own freedom and became a slave owner himself
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Indentured Servents
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- a person who agreed to work for a colonial employer for a specified time in exchange for passage to America
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Headright System
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- a system employed in Virgina and Maryland to encourage the importation of servant workers
- whoever paid the passage of a laborer the right to acquire fifty acres of land
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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- a rebellion of indentured servants (white) led by Nathaniel Bacon in response to Governor Berkley’s friendly policies with hostile natives, which destroyed the Virgina colony and created dissent among indentured servants
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Middle Passage
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- The transatlantic sea voyage that brought slaves to the New World
- the long and hazardous “middle” segment of a journey that began with a forced march to the African coast and ended with a trek into the American interior
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Jeremiads
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- a new form of a sermon in the Puritan Churches in the mid-17th century
- preachers scolded parishioners for their waning piety
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Leisler’s Rebellion
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- an ill-starred and bloody insurgency that rocked NYC from 1689 to 1691
- fueled by animosity between lordly landholders and aspiring merchants
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Half-Way Covenant
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- 1662
- arrangement in Puritan churches which modified the covenant to admit to baptism the unconverted children of existing members
- weakened the distinction between the elect and others
- led to a widening of the church membership
- women became a majority in Puritan churches
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Royal African Company
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- chartered in 1672 by the English government to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants
- supplied African slaves to colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia
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Stono Rebellion
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- the most serious slave rebellion in the colonial period which occurred in 1739 in South Carolina
- 100 African Americans rose up, got weapons, and killed several whites then tried to escape to South Florida
- the uprising was crushed and the participants executed
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Congregational Church
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- democratic town meeting to decide how to run the village or town
- led to democracy in political government
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Salem Witch Trials
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- the late 17th-century judicial event that inflamed popular feelings
- led to the deaths of twenty people
- weakened the Puritan clergy’s prestige
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New York Slave Revolt
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- revolt in New York that caused the execution of 21 slaves
- they tried to march from South Carolina to Florida and were stopped by militia
- major middle colonies rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths
