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quitrent

Quitrents were small annual fees paid by a landowner to the proprietor (or granter) who had conferred the holding.

Berkeley

governor of virginia during bacons rebellion

carolina negro act

prohibited enslaved African people from growing their own food, learning to read, moving freely, assembling in groups, and earning mone

royal african company

english trading company that transported slaves to america from the west coast of africa

john peter zenger

german journalist, ran the New York Weekly Journal

• Cosby (new york governor) objected to contents and shut down paper after two months, charging Zenger with seditious libel ( crime of making public statements that threaten to undermine respect for the government, laws, or public officials)

• Jury acquitted Zenger after attorney argued that statements in paper were true and thus not libel

Result and affect of half way covenant

Agreement made to allow with a third generation who were not baptized or church members. This was a limited form of membership to the church for anyone who was not known as a sinner. They could be baptized, but not go to communion or participate in Church decisions.

Define headright system

• Any person entering the colony can take 50 acres of unused land which they claimed by marking its boundaries, planting a crop and constructing a habitation. With this, they would usually have to pay a small quitrent to the grantor, but this was not always enforced.

Slaves over endentured servants

European planters thought Africans would be more suited to the conditions than their own countrymen, as the climate resembled that the climate of their homeland in West Africa. Enslaved Africans were also much less expensive to maintain than indentured European servants.

Paxton boys (pennsylvania)

• Murdered peaceful Conestoga Indians in retaliation for frontier Indian attacks

• Marched on Philadelphia; Delegation, led by Benjamin Franklin,

Triangular Trade

• In 1643 five New England vessels packed their holds with fish which they sold in Spain and the Canary Islands, taking payment in sherry and madeira which were tradable in England (one took payment in slaves which they sold in West Indies).

Yale

• several Connecticut ministers founded to uphold Puritan values, but slipped by 1722

Salem Witch; how many firstly accused and who?

• The first three accused were Sarah Good, a pauper with a nasty tongue; Sarah Osborne, a bedridden widow; and Tituba, slave

What ended the trials?

• the governor (William Phips) adjourned the court and forbade any further executions

Who arrived to New England to make colonies behave like colonies and not powers?

• Edmund Andros, a professional soldier and administrator

• abolished popular assemblies

• changed the land-grant system to give the king quitrents

• enforced religious toleration

Founder of Georgia and why

• founded by a group of London philanthropists in 1733 to give a place of settlement for honest persons who had been imprisoned for debt

What did southern colonists produce to buy manufactured goods?

• Southern colonists bought manufactured goods by producing: tobacco, rice, indigo, furs, and forest products such as lumber, tar, and resin

Major cash crop in the Carolinas

Rice

Bacons Rebellion; describe

• wanted approval to attack nearby Indians; Governor refused

• Bacon had raised an army of 500 men

• Declared a traitor by Berkeley, Bacon and his followers murdered some peaceful Indians, marched on Jamestown and forced Berkeley to give him permission to kill more Indians

• In September, Bacon returned to Jamestown and burned it to the ground causing Berkeley to flee

First Africans arrived in…

Jamestown

Three regions of southern part of English america

• “tidewater”: Virginia and Maryland

• “low country”: the Carolinas (and eventually Georgia)

• “back country”: a vast territory that extended from the “fall line” of the foothills of the Appalachians to the farthest point of western settlement

Governments of Middle Colonies…

• Had popularly elected representative assemblies

• Most white males could vote

Two interest groups in Pennsylvania politics…

• Proprietary party and Quaker party

Mass and Connecticut did what laws?

• Passed laws requiring church attendance,

• Banning Quakers from practicing their religion

• Provided the death penalty for adultery and blaspheming a parent