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
What was the belief that one’s free-will determines one’s eternal fate?
Arminianism
What was the huge religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s?
The Great Awakening
Supporters of the Great Awakening were called? People against it were called?
Supporters= New Lights & People against it= Old Lights
Benjamin Franklin’s book full of wise quotes is called….?
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Trial for a Newspaper that assailed the corrupt royal government?
Zenger trial
Almost every colony utilized a two house legislative system. Upper house was appointed by___? Lower house was appointed by?
Upper House= Royal Colonies & Lower House= Proprietary Colonies.
Arminianism was inspired by?
Jacobus Arminius
Pastor that emphasized salvation through God’s Grace and painted vivid images of hell…?
Jonathan Edwards.
Dramatic priest that put on a big show when preaching?
George Whitefield
A slave with no formal education that published a book of verse in England?
Phillis Wheatley
A newspaper printer that was put on trial for publishing damaging news about the corrupt royal governor?
John Peter Zenger
