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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
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