Time Period 2 (Chapter 4)

Question 1

indentured servants

Answer 1

migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service between 4-7 years

Question 2

headright system

Answer 2

employed by tobacco companies to encourage the importation of indentured servants, allowed an individual to acquire 50 acres of land if he paid for a laborer’s passage

Question 3

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 3

uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants led by Nathaniel Bacon; initially a response to Gov. Berkeley’s refusal to protect back country settlers from Indian attacks

Question 4

Royal African Company

Answer 4

English joint-stock company that enjoyed a state-granted monopoly on the colonial slave trade from 1672-1698. After they lost their charter, the importation of slaves to the colonies rose

Question 5

middle passage

Answer 5

transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the Colonies

Question 6

New York Slave Revolt

Answer 6

uprising of about 2 dozen slaves that resulted in the death of 9 whites and brutal executions of 21 blacks

Question 7

SC Slave Revolt (Stone River)

Answer 7

uprising of more than 50 SC blacks along the Stone River. They attempted to reach Florida but were stopped by the SC militia.

Question 8

Congregational Church

Answer 8

self-governing puritan congregations without the hierarchy of the Anglican Church

Question 9

Jeremiad

Answer 9

often fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners first delivered in New England in the mid 1700’s; named after doom-saying prophet Jeremiah.

Question 10

Half-Way Covenant

Answer 10

agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their kids. Signified the waning of religious zeal among 2nd and 3rd gen. Puritans

Question 11

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 11

series of witchcraft trials launched after a group if adolescent girls in Salem, MA claimed to be beeitched by certain older
women in town. 20 people would be put to death before trials were put to and end by the Governor of MA.

Question 12

Leisler’s Rebellion

Answer 12

Armed conflict between aspiring merchants led by John Leisler and the ruling elite of NY. One if many uprisings that formed across the colonies when wealthy colonists tried to recreate social structures from Europe in the New World

Question 13

William Berkeley

Answer 13

Royal Gov. of Virginia, with brief interruptions, from 1641 to his death. He was a member of Virginia’s seaboard elite, drew the ire of backwater settlers for refusing to protect them against indian attacks, leading to Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 14

Nathaniel Bacon

Answer 14

Young viriginian planter who led a rebellion against Gov. Berkeley in 1676 to protest his refusal to protect frontier settlers

Question 15

Anthony Johnson

Answer 15

African slave who bought his freedom and became a slave-holder in Virginia, serving a testament to the relative fluidity of early colonial society