Chapter 2: American Society in the Making

Headright System

Anyone entering the colonies would get 50 acres of land

Quitrent

A tax on the Headright System

Indentured Servant

Someone who works for a master for passage to the New World

Squatters' Rights

The right for people to live in unoccupied areas

Slavery

The owning and forced labor of humans, mainly Africans

Peculiar Institution

Euphemism for slavery

Covenant

A formal agreement within Puritan beliefs and God for good behavior

Nuclear Family

A family consisting only of parents and their children

Town Meeting

A gathering of citizens to vote on issues

Triangular Trade

Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

Royal African Company 1672

English company with a monopoly on the slave trade, made slaves more readily available

Bacon's Rebellion

A failed Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon that burned down Jamestown and killed Natives over fears of Native attacks and wanted land from them

Half Way Covenant

Allowed children of baptized but unconverted parents to be full church members

Dominion of New England

A union of the British colonies to be more strictly ruled by the king, but ended after the Glorious Revolution

Glorious Revolution

The peaceful deposition of King James II’s power to his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, and increase of Parliament's power

Leisler's Rebellion

A rebellion by Jacob Leisler who named himself governor of New York, but failed

he seized control of the colony’s south and ruled it 1689-1691

Factors

Agents in england and scotland that managed manufacturing and sales

Paxton Boys' Uprising

The murder of 20 unarmed Natives by Pennsylvanians (Scotch Irish) because Philly wouldnt help them with Indian frontier attacks

• benjamin franklin promised bounty on indian scalps to stop this

William Berkeley

Governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion

Eliza Lucas

Developed indigo as a cash crop for the south

ran three plantations in South Carolina for her father

wife of Charles Pinkney

James Oglethorpe

Founder of Georgia, The final English colony where convicts from Britain stayed

Edmund Andros

Governor of the Dominion of New England

Cotton Mather

A minister who increased the hysteria during the Salem Witch Trials

Ben Franklin

A famous colonial writer, scientist, and diplomat

John Peter Zenger

Journalist who was accused and acquitted of libel, becoming a symbol of free speech

edited the New York weekly journal