Terms & People
Young Virginia planter who led a rebellion against the governor of Virginia to protest his refusal to protect frontier settlers from Indian attacks.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
The leading cash crop of the Chesapeake area.
Name the colonies that make-up New England.
What are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island?
The Salem witchcraft trials occurred in this colony.
What is Massachusetts?
In the social pyramid of southern society, this group was at the bottom.
Who are slaves?
Royal governor of Virginia who drew the ire of backwater settlers for refusing to protect them against Indian attacks.
Who is William Berkeley?
Name the colonies that make-up the Chesapeake area.
What are Maryland and Virginia?
Name two economic endeavors the New England colonists specialized in.
What are shipbuilding and trade?
Name the year(s) the Salem Witch Trials occurred.
What is 1692-1693?
Transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies.
What is the middle passage?
Agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children; signified a waning of religious zeal among second-and third-generation Puritans.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
Uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants against the governor of Virginia, who did not protect them from Indian attacks.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Describe New England family life.
What is family-oriented centered around religion and education?
This term passed into American vocabulary as a metaphor for the often dangerously irrational urge to find a scapegoat for social resentments.
What is witch hunt?
Set of laws that defined racial slavery; established the hereditary nature of slavery and limited the rights and education of slaves.
What are slave codes?
Fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners; named after the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah.
What is jeremiad?
Migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service (4-7 years); their migration addressed the chronic labor shortage in the colonies and facilitated settlement.
Who are indentured servants?
Most white migrants to early colonial New England came from this class of European society.
What is middle class?
The evidence used in court against accused witches.
What is spectral evidence?
Describe the difference in slave labor between the southern and northern colonies.
What is plantation farming in the south and household servants or manufactured labor in the north?
Armed conflict between aspiring merchants and the ruling elite of New York; one of many uprisings that erupted across the colonies when wealthy colonists attempted to re-create European social structures in the New World.
What is Leisler's Rebellion?
In the social pyramid of southern society, this group was the largest.
Who are the farmers?
Self-governing Puritan congregations without the hierarchical establishment of the Anglican Church.
What is Congregational Church?
The Native American woman enslaved by Samuel Parris accused of witchcraft.
Who is Tituba?
English joint-stock company that enjoyed a state-granted monopoly on the colonial slave trade from 1672 until 1698; the supply of slaves to the North American colonies rose sharply once the company lost its monopoly privileges.
What is the Royal African Company?