Chapter 4 Flashcards

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The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its

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Scarcity of women

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The “headright” system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of

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Giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America

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______ reaped the greatest benefit from the land policies of the “headright” system.

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Slave owners

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4
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English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called

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Indentured servants

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5
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Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from

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White servants

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By the end of the seventeenth century, indentured servants who gained their freedom

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Had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages to their former masters

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Bacon’s Rebellion was supported mainly by

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Young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land

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As a result of Bacon’s Rebellion,

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Planters began to look for less troublesome laborers

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The majority of African slaves coming to the New World

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Were delivered to South America and the West Indies

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For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the “middle passage” can be best described as

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The gruesome ocean voyage to America

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11
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African American contributions to American culture did not include

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The guitar

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12
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While slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,

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Racial discrimination also powerfully molded the American slave system

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The slave society that developed in North America was one of the few slave societies in history to

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Perpetuate itself by its own natural reproduction

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14
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The slave culture that developed in America

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Was a uniquely New World creation

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15
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Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were

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Landowning small farmers

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16
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The New England family can best be described as

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A very stable institution

17
Q

In seventeenth centry colonial America, the following are true regarding women except

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Women had no rights as individuals

18
Q

The Puritan system of Congregational church government logically led to

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Democracy in political government

19
Q

Thomas Jefferson once observed that “the best school of political liberty the world ever saw” was the

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New England town meeting

20
Q

The Half-Way Covenant

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Admitted to baptism but not full memebership the unconverted children of existing members

21
Q

The Salem witchcraft trials were

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The result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts

22
Q

The English justified taking land from the native inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians

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Wasted the Earth

23
Q

As a result of poor soil, all of the following conditions prevailed in New England except that

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Reliance on a single, staple crop became a necessity