APUSH Chapter 4

Slave labor in the South

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

Scarcity of women

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

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.

Virginia

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

More Tobacco

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

Merchant planters

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

Indentured servants

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

White servants

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

Three-quarters of the population

Indentured servants in the seventeenth century Chesapeake represented…

Harsh circumstances

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

Bacon's Rebellion

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

South America and the West Indies

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

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…

Race

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

South Carolina

The physical and social conditions of slavery were harshest in…

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.

New world creation

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

Widened

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

Small landowners

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

Stable institution

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

Frequently died young

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

Democratic political government

The Puritan system of congregational church government logically led to…

Property owning women

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

New England

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

Economy

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

Wasted the earth

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

Affluent abundance

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