Chapter 4 and 5 Review Flashcards
Chesapeake good for…?
Growing Tobacco
In early years of settlement in Chesapeake immigrants were…?
Single men
Many of the workers in Chesapeake were?
Indentured Servants
Both Virginia and Maryland used…?
The head-right system
What was the head-right system?
A system that 50 acres of land to a person who paid the passage of a laborer.
What was the original African slave importing company?
Royal African Company
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
A rebellion of indentured Servants.
Who led Bacon’s rebellion? Who was it against?
Nathaniel Bacon. Against Governor Berkeley
The time when African slaves came to the “New World” was called…?
Middle Passage
Death rate in “middle passage”?
20%
What was the law that legally divided indentured servants and slaves by making African slaves and their children property of the whites?
Slave Codes
What were 2 significant slave revolts?
The New York Slave revolt and South Carolina slave revolt along the Stono River.
Town meetings in which the adult males met together and each man voted?
Congregational Church
How did puritans get more members?
By the Half-Way Covenant
A witchcraft hysteria started by teenage girls.
Salem Witch Trials
A rebellion in New York that was fueled by animosity between landholders and aspiring merchants?
Leisler’s Rebellion
Virginia Governor during Bacon’s Rebellion was…?
William Berkeley
Leader of Bacon’s Rebellion was…?
Nathaniel Bacon
Slave that bought his own freedom and became a slave holder himself ?
Anthony Johnson
Frontiers men of the Scots-Irish were?
The Paxton Boys
The movement spearheaded by Scots-Irish against eastern domination of the colony’s affairs is called?
Regulator Movement
What was a very popular form of trade?
Triangular Trade
What regions were included in the Triangular Trade?
New England, Africa, and the West Indies
What was the act that was created to end North American trade with the French West Indies?
Molasses Act
