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Indentured servants
Immigrants who received passage to America in exchange for a fixed term of labor
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Freedom dues
Indentured servants received transatlantic passage; corn, suit, small land
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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.
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Bacon’s Rebellion
In 1676, Bacon, a young planter led a rebellion against people who were friendly to the Indians. In the process he torched Jamestown, Virginia and was murdered by Indians.
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William Berkeley
Colonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge
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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.
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Slave codes
VA- 1662- statues that had decreed on them the iron conditions of slavery for blacks
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Stono River Revolt
50 + blacks from South Carolina revolted in 1739 and tried to go to Spanish Florida but stopped
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Planters
Top of the south's social ladder with small but powerful convey; vast lands, slaves, rules region economy, and political power
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Widowarchy
Allowed widows right to inherit their husband's land
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Jeremiad
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.
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Conversions
Testimonials by individual that they they had received Gods grace and deserved to be admitted to church as members of elect
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Half-Way Covenant
Formula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion
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Leisler’s Rebellion
an ill- starred bloody insurgency in New York City took place between landholders and merchants
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