APUSH - Ch. 4 & 5 terms - Spruell
Indentured servants - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔voluntarily worked for someone that
paid for their passage to the New World but had a contract with restrictions
and had to work without pay for a certain amount of time
Head-right system - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔encouraged the importation of servant
workers; whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to
acquire fifty acres of land
Bacon's Rebellion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔uprising of Virginia back-country
farmers and indentured servants led by planter Nathanial Bacon; initially a
response to Governor William Berkley's refusal to protect backcountry
settlers from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a border
conflict between impoverished settlers and the planter elite
, Royal African Company - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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
Middle passage - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Transatlantic voyage slaves endured
between Africa and the colonies. Mortality rates were notoriously high.
"slave codes" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔set of laws beginning in 1662 defining racial
slavery. They established the hereditary nature of slavery and limited the
rights and education of slaves
Congregational Church - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔self-governing Puritan
congregations without the hierarchical establishment of the Anglican
Church
Jeremiad - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔often-fiery sermons lamenting the wanting piety
of parishioners first delivered in New England in the mid-seventeenth
century; named after the doom-saying Old Testament prophet Jeremiah
Half-Way Covenant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔agreement allowing unconverted
offspring of church members to baptize their children. It signified a waning
of religious zeal among second and third generation Puritans
Indentured servants - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔voluntarily worked for someone that
paid for their passage to the New World but had a contract with restrictions
and had to work without pay for a certain amount of time
Head-right system - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔encouraged the importation of servant
workers; whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to
acquire fifty acres of land
Bacon's Rebellion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔uprising of Virginia back-country
farmers and indentured servants led by planter Nathanial Bacon; initially a
response to Governor William Berkley's refusal to protect backcountry
settlers from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a border
conflict between impoverished settlers and the planter elite
, Royal African Company - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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
Middle passage - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Transatlantic voyage slaves endured
between Africa and the colonies. Mortality rates were notoriously high.
"slave codes" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔set of laws beginning in 1662 defining racial
slavery. They established the hereditary nature of slavery and limited the
rights and education of slaves
Congregational Church - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔self-governing Puritan
congregations without the hierarchical establishment of the Anglican
Church
Jeremiad - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔often-fiery sermons lamenting the wanting piety
of parishioners first delivered in New England in the mid-seventeenth
century; named after the doom-saying Old Testament prophet Jeremiah
Half-Way Covenant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔agreement allowing unconverted
offspring of church members to baptize their children. It signified a waning
of religious zeal among second and third generation Puritans
