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Indentured servants

Immagrants who bound themselves to an employer in exchange for voyage

Headright system

Allowed someone to get 50 acres of land if he paid for an indentured servant’s passage

Disfranchise

Denying someone the right to vote

William berkely

Gov of Virginia

Nathaniel Bacon

Leader of a rebellious group of settlers

Bacons rebellion

NY farmers and indentured servants, attacks against Indians in rebellion to the leader’s action, led to a wider conflict between poor and elite

Royal African company

English company that had a monopoly on colonial trade

Middle passage

Slave voyage between Africa and the colonies, awful conditions, often fatal

Great planters

Top of social hierarchy, owned a lot of slaves and land

Small farmers

Largest social group, small land, few slaves

Landless whites

Mostly former indentured servants, lowest free group

Indentured servants

Small group, lowest European group

Black slaves

Bottom of hierarchy, oppressed

Proprietors

Town fathers

Congregational church

Self governing puritan congregations, democratic

Jeremiad

Sermons a holding the settlers for their dying piety

Half-way covenant

Allowed unconverted children of church members to baptize their children

Salem witch trials

Began after a group of girls claimed to be bewitched, ended in lynching of 20 women

Leisler’s rebellion

Conflicts between aspiring merchants and New York elite

Tidewater

Swampy lowland in southern colonies

Blue blood

Aristocrat

Anthony Johnson

Indentured servant who earned freedom and achieved wealth