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black codes - laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit african american workers encomiendas - land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from native americans evangelicalism - stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation, based on emotionalism and spiritualism headright system - Headrights were parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists. indentured servitude - the system of temporary servitude, where young men and women bound themselves to masters for fixed terms of servitude (four to five years), in exchange for passage to America, food and shelter. This method of labor was one of the largest elements of colonial population in America. joint-stock company - A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts. mercantilism - an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought middle passage - the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade proprietary colony - English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly paymentpuritanism - Movement in the English church in the late 16th to remove all catholic influences and purify., the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects)