APUSH Chapter 4

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Slave labor in the South

As the seventeenth century wore on, regional differences continued to crystallize, most notably the importance of…

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Scarcity of women

The population of the Chesapeake colonies, throughout the first half of the seventeenth century, was notable for its…

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The headright system

This made some people very wealthy, consisted of giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.

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Virginia

By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was…

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More Tobacco

Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by growing…

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Merchant planters

They reaped the greatest benefit from the land policies of the headright system.

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Indentured servants

English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called…

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White servants

Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from…

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Three-quarters of the population

Indentured servants in the seventeenth century Chesapeake represented…

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Harsh circumstances

Over the course of the seventeenth century, most indentured servants faced increasingly…

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Bacon's Rebellion

This was supported mainly by young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land and find women to marry.

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South America and the West Indies

The majority of African slaves coming to the New World were delivered to…

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The middle passage

For those Africans who were sold into slavery, this part of the journey can be best described as the gruesome ocean voyage to America…

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Race

The 1662 slave codes in Virginia are significant because they established a legal difference between servants and slaves based on…

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South Carolina

The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in…

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Africans

Contributions to American culture by this group of people include all of the following jazz music, the banjo, bongo drums and a variety of words.

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New world creation

The slave culture that developed in America was a uniquely a…

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Widened

As slavery spread in the South gaps in the social structure…

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Small landowners

Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were landowning…

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Stable institution

The New England family can best be described as a very…

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Frequently died young

Southern colonies generally allowed married women to retain separate title to their property because southern men…

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Democratic political government

The Puritan system of congregational church government logically led to…

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Property owning women

During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were…

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New England

This regions colonial economy depended heavily on fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.

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Economy

In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, those in New England had a more diversified…

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Wasted the earth

The English justified taking land from the native inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians…

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Affluent abundance

Compared with most seventeenth-century Europeans, Americans lived in…

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