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Headright System
________: by which masters received additional land grants for every servant they imported.
New World
The system of temporary servitude in the ________ developed out of existing practices in England.
Great Awakening
The ________ led to the division of congregations between "New Light "revivalists and "Old Light "traditionalists.
Church of England
The ________ was established as the official faith in Virginia, Maryland, New York, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
substantial proportion
Widows, widowers, and orphans formed a(n) ________ of the white population of the Chesapeake.
intellectual discoveries
The Enlightenment was largely the product of some of the great scientific and ________ in seventeenth- century Europe.
African laborers
The first ________ arrived in English North America before 1620.
Midwives
________ were popular because they were usually friends and neighbors of the people they treated, unlike physicians, who were few and therefore not often well known to their patients.
total immersion
All Baptists shared the belief that rebaptism, usually by ________, was necessary when believers reached maturity.
New England
The ________ population more than quadrupled through reproduction alone in the second half of the seventeenth century.
London
The trading in tobacco and rice was handled largely by merchants based in ________ and, later, in the northern colonies Northern Economic and Technological Life.
Black women
________ were often subjected to unwanted sexual advances from owners The Puritan Community.
American college
Harvard, the first ________, was established in 1636 by the General Court (legislature) of Massachusetts The Spread of Science.
Rice cultivation
________ was arduous work, performed standing knee- deep in the mud of malarial swamps under a blazing sun, surrounded by insects.
wives of small farmers
The wives of plantation owners, unlike the ________, could rely on servants to perform ordinary household chores.
major bust
The first ________ in the tobacco economy occurred in 1640, and the boom- and- bust pattern continued throughout the colonial period and beyond.
importance of reproduction
The ________ in the labor- scarce society of seventeenth- century America had particularly significant effects on women.
Wealthy planters
________ also shaped the livelihoods of small farmers, who could not effectively compete with the ________ and thus depended on them to market crops and receive credit.
Religious toleration
________ flourished in many parts of America to a degree unmatched in any European nation.
Colonial cities
________ served as trading centers for the farmers of their regions and as marts for international trade.
English birth
A decrease in the ________ rate and an increase in English prosperity reduced the pressures on many men and women who might otherwise have considered emigrating.
Great Awakening
The ________ began in earnest in the 1730s, reached its climax in the 1740s, and brought a new spirit of religious fervor to the colonies.
Great Awakening
The ________ caused one great upheaval in the culture of the colonies.
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