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Chapter 4: American Life in the 17th Century, 1607-1692
1. William Berkeley - He was a British colonial governor of Virginia from 1642-52. He showed that he had favorites in his second term which led to the Bacon's rebellion in 1676 ,which he ruthlessly suppressed. He had poor frontier defense.
2. Nathaniel Bacon - was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
3. Cotton Mather – was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in theSalem witch trials.
4. Indentured servitude - consisted of a worker (the "indentured servant"), usually from a foreign country, agreeing to work for a specific time, usually about 7-8 years, to pay off his costs of travel to the new country.
5. Slave codes - were laws which each colony, enacted which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. Such codes gave slave-owners absolute power over their human property.
6. Headright system - way to attract immigrants; gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid their way and/or any plantation owner that paid an immigrants way; mainly a system in the southern colonies.
7. Jeremiads - In the 1600's, Puritan preachers noticed a decline in the religious devotion of second-generation settlers. To combat this decreasing piety, they preached a type of sermon called the jeremiad. The jeremiads focused on the teachings of Jeremiah, a Biblical prophet who warned of doom.
8. Middle passage - middle segment of the forced journey that slaves made from Africa to America throughout the 1600's; it consisted of the dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean; many slaves perished on this segment of the journey.
9. Congregational church - are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregationindependently and autonomously runs its
1. William Berkeley - He was a British colonial governor of Virginia from 1642-52. He showed that he had favorites in his second term which led to the Bacon's rebellion in 1676 ,which he ruthlessly suppressed. He had poor frontier defense.
2. Nathaniel Bacon - was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.
3. Cotton Mather – was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in theSalem witch trials.
4. Indentured servitude - consisted of a worker (the "indentured servant"), usually from a foreign country, agreeing to work for a specific time, usually about 7-8 years, to pay off his costs of travel to the new country.
5. Slave codes - were laws which each colony, enacted which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. Such codes gave slave-owners absolute power over their human property.
6. Headright system - way to attract immigrants; gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid their way and/or any plantation owner that paid an immigrants way; mainly a system in the southern colonies.
7. Jeremiads - In the 1600's, Puritan preachers noticed a decline in the religious devotion of second-generation settlers. To combat this decreasing piety, they preached a type of sermon called the jeremiad. The jeremiads focused on the teachings of Jeremiah, a Biblical prophet who warned of doom.
8. Middle passage - middle segment of the forced journey that slaves made from Africa to America throughout the 1600's; it consisted of the dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean; many slaves perished on this segment of the journey.
9. Congregational church - are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregationindependently and autonomously runs its