period 2 extra credit

chesapeake

region around chesapeake bay, economy = tobacco, high death rate, more men than women

headright system

virigina gave 50 acres to anyone who paid a person’s passage to colony, indentured servitude

indentured servitude

poor europeans worked 4-7 years in exchange for passage then gain freedom, main chesapeake labor source until 1600s

bacon’s rebellion

nathaniel bacon led frontier farmers and servants against gov berkely, native policy and elite control, shift to enslaved african labor

house of burgesses

virgina assmebly, 1st elected rep body, colonial self government

puritanism

calvinist protestant who wanted to purify church of england, founded MA bay, “city upon a hill”

great migration

20,000 move to new england, usually as families, gave new england a stable fast growing population

mayflower compact

aggreement among pilgrims to govern themselves by majority rule, self government

salutary neglect

britain loosely enforced laws, colonies got used to it

triangular trade

trade routes linking europe, africa and americans

middle passage

brutal atlantic crossing of slaves

slave codes

colonial laws that defined slavery as a lifelong, hereitary, race based

great awakening

emotional revivals by jonathan edwards and george whitfield, challenge church authority

colonial regional differences

new england: small farms, trade, shipbuilding, towns middle: diverse, grain south: cash crops,plantations, slavery

religious toleration

allow multiple fatiths, maryland toleration act, quacker penn