unit 2 concept map terms 2

Question 1

indentured servitude

Answer 1

form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years
judicial punishment or voluntary

Question 2

headright

Answer 2

legal grant of land given to settlers during the period of European colonization in the Americas
expansion of the Thirteen Colonies

Question 3

gullah

Answer 3

African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina
developed a creole language
a culture with some African influence

Question 4

half way convenant

Answer 4

religious-political solution adopted by Puritans, that allowed the children of baptized but unconverted church members to be baptized and thus become church members and have political rights.

Question 5

salem witch trials

Answer 5

a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging.

Question 6

bacons rebellion

Answer 6

first armed insurrection by American colonists against Britain and their colonial government.
led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley

Question 7

middle passage

Answer 7

stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade

Question 8

proprietors

Answer 8

distributed the land among themselves, usually according to social status and family need
individuals or companies were granted commercial charters by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England to establish colonies. These proprietors then selected the governors and other officials in the colony.

Question 9

congregational churches

Answer 9

Protestant churches in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

Question 10

royal african company

Answer 10

trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants’ trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa.

Question 11

slave revolts

Answer 11

armed uprising by enslaved people, as a way of fighting for their freedom
occurred in 1739 in South Carolina. The main form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to go