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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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