Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century (1607-1692)

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Indentured Servants

Individuals who worked in labor contracts in the American colonies in 17th and 18th centuries

  • after serving 4-7 years they can leave their contract

  • most died early due to bad conditions for work

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transportation, food, shelter

as an indentured servant, you would receive ?, ?, and ?

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labor shortages

The colonies needed indentured servants since there were ?

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freedom dues

after serving a full labor contract, indentured servants received ? which included

  • land

  • tools

  • money

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populating, bolstering

Indentured servants were pivotal in ? the colonies and ? the economy

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Headright System

A land allocation policy which gave colonial settlers land for each person they took with them to the colonies in the 17th century

  • typically 50 acres per person

  • especially important in Virginia

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populating, immigrants, investors, plantations

The Headright System was crucial in ? the colonies, attracting ? and ?

  • directly helped facilitate the growth of ?

    • entrenched social and economic disparities in the population

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Bacon’s Rebellion

A rebellion led by the wealthy planter Nathaniel Bacon against the Virginian governor William Berkeley in 17th century which was temporarily successful until Bacon died

  • outrage at inactivity to protect civilians from Native Americans

  • outrage at corruption in economics

  • outrage at the social status of poor white farmers

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Jamestown

Bacon’s Rebellion included the burning of ?

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uprising, unfair

Bacon’s Rebellion is one of the earliest examples of an American ? against an ? British rule

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Middle Passage

The transatlantic journey African slaves endured to reach the colonies from West Africa primarily during the 16th - 18th centuries

  • a trip could last for 6-8 weeks

  • 10-20% of captives usually died in a trip

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inhumane, abuse

The Middle Passage was extremely ? as it inflicted heavy ? on the slaves taken

  • physical violence

  • high mortality rates

  • immense psychological trauma

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slave, economy

The Middle Passage was a critical route as it helped establish a ?-based economy and bolstered ?

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Slave Codes

A series of laws in numerous parts of the colonies that institutionalized slaves as property and African-American abuse and racism which started in the 17th century

  • limited African

    • assembly

    • education

    • freedom

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property

Slaves codes made it legal to see slaves as ?

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racism, lowest

Slave codes normalized ? against African slaves and cemented them as the ? in the hierarchy in the colonials

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Half-Way Covenant

A New England Puritan Policy to try and counter the declining Church memberships during increasing secularization in the 17th century

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baptized, parents, betrayal

The Half-Way Covenant let children and grandchildren be ? into partial Church membership even if their ? weren’t in a half-ah way to increase the Church’s power

  • highly controversial as it was seen as a ? of the existing strict standards of Puritan Christianity

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religious, weakening

Half-Way Covenant represented the shifting in the colonies away from their original ? craze and showed the ? power of the Church

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Salem Witch Trials

A series of trials against witchcraft in the late 17th century in the Massachusetts town of Salem

  • many women were persecuted

  • mass hysteria

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Native American, religious, rivalries

The Salem Witch Trials are a prime example of mass hysteria due to a multitude of factors pressuring the town of Salem

  • ? attacks

  • ? disagreement

  • Local ?

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William Philips

Hilariously, the Salem Witch Trials ended once the governor, ?, had his own wife accused of witchcraft

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social, religious

The Salem Witch Trials exemplified the dangers of the ? and ? (specifically Puritan) tensions during the early colonial period

  • further disagreement on how to be a good Christian in a strictly Puritan town pushed the townspeople into violence

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Leisler’s Rebellion

A rebellion started by Jacob Leisler in New York against the unfair rule of the English-controlled colonial government in the late 17th century

  • Leisler was a German immigrant and merchant

  • Heavily disapproved by colonial elites

  • ended with Jacob Leisler’s execution

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Fort James

Jacob Leisler was able to capture ? during his uprising

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Glorious Revolution

Jacob Leisler’s rebellion occurred in the aftermath of the ?

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English, people’s, tensions

Leisler’s Rebellion was an early example of rebelling against ? rule and establishing a ? government

  • exposed the ? between the people and the colonial government