Chapter Four

Question 1

Headright System

Answer 1

For every indentured servant, owners would get 50 acres of land.

Question 2

Disenfranchise

Answer 2

Take away the right to vote.

Question 3

Tidewater

Answer 3

Territory around the coast and around rivers. Optimal for trade and transportation. Highly desirable land.

Question 4

Middle Passage

Answer 4

Ship journey where slaves were taken from Africa to the Americas, it was a very harsh journey and many slaves died on the way.

Question 5

Jeremiad

Answer 5

A new form of sermon that Puritans were teaching. Goes over the misfortunes of an era.

Question 6

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 6

1676-77, group of indentured servants rising up and causing conflicts with authority and Native Americans.

Question 7

Salem Witch Trails

Answer 7

Hearings and lynchings of people accused of witchcraft. Young girls claimed to be bewitched, accused women were sent to trial, the guilty were hanged.

Question 8

Leisler’s Rebellion

Answer 8

New York revolt that reflected tensions between lordly, high-class landlords, and aspiring low-class merchants. Bloody rebellion from 1689-1691.

Question 9

Congregational Church

Answer 9

Grown from the Puritan Church, founded in all colonies except for Rhode Island. Based on the belief that individual churches should govern themselves democratically as opposed to being under the control of the English.

Question 10

Half-Way Covenant

Answer 10

A new formula for church membership in 1662. Partial membership for people who were not fully converted into the Puritan Church.

Question 11

Slave Codes

Answer 11

Laws that controlled the lives and enslavement of African slaves. This stripped them of almost all rights, making them the private property of the owners.

Question 12

Royal African Company

Answer 12

Trading company chartered by the English in 1672.

Question 13

Freedom Dues

Answer 13

Required things given to indentured servants when they were freed. Corn, clothes, and if they were lucky, land.

Question 14

Southern Gentry

Answer 14

Upper Middle Class of Southern America. Plantation owners and slave holders.

Question 15

Order of Classes in the South

Answer 15

Plantation Owners
Small Farmers
Landless Whites
African Slaves

Question 16

Great Awakening

Answer 16

Religious revival across America.

Question 17

Johnathan Edwards

Answer 17

Colonial Christian theologist. “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”.

Question 18

George Whitefield

Answer 18

Christian preacher famous for his new and energized style of preaching.

Question 19

What was the difference between the Chesapeake colonies and the New England colonies?

Answer 19

In the Chesapeake they had many diseases and very short life expectancy. It was also very, very hot. The New England colonies had cleaner water and cooler temperatures. This meant their live spans were much longer. Additionally, they migrated as families rather than as individuals such as in the Chesapeake.