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introduction of livestock
The ________ had a negative impact on the landscape: deforestation and flooding.
Massachusetts
________ passed laws requiring towns of 50 or more families to hire a teacher and 100 or more families to establish a school.
Gullah
________ was created, which was a combination of many African languages.
Slave codes
________ established a distinction between whites and black people.
Bacon’s Rebellion
an uprising of backcountry settlers and indentured servants against the Natives led by Nathanial Bacon. After not being protected by the governor, these settlers broke out in a battle with the Natives. They later burned down the Virginia capital, and the conflict turned into a problem between wealthy masters and poor settlers.
Headright system
a system set up by England used in colonial Virginia and Maryland that allowed masters to buy indentured servants from England and receive 50 acres of land in return. This system was used to increase indentured servitude in the colonies, and masters took advantage of it.
William Berkeley
the Virginia governor who refused to defend the backcountry settlers from the Native Americans. Eventually, these backcountry settlers had to protect themselves against the Natives, leading to Bacon’s Rebellion.
slave laws increased heavily; they can't read, write, leave the plantation
Effects of Stono Rebellion
Sabotage, Slow down production, Escape, Rebellion
Ways slaves resisted
Half-Way Covenant
a covenant in which people who had not undergone a conversion could baptize their children into to Puritan church. This covenant was a first step towards everyone being allowed in the Puritan church and was a sign that Puritan demands were extreme.
Bible
High literacy rates because Puritan leaders stressed reading the _____
scarlet letter, public whipping
Puritan tactics used to preserve marriages
indentured servants
By the late 1600s, ________ ______ made up the majority of the population in the upper southern colonies.
Headright System
Wealthy planters used this system to establish huge plantations.
men greatly outnumbered women
reason for slow population growth in the South
indentured servitude
a wealthy person would pay for a poorer person’s passage to America, where the poor person would ten have to work for the wealthy person for an agreed amount of time
Bacon’s Rebellion
the event that led the South to rely more heavily on slavery
the reliance on agriculture
stunted the growth of cities and universities in the South
Middle Passage
the nautical voyage from Africa to colonial America for the slave trade. This was the slave passage, and death rates were extremely high.
Jeremiads
lively sermons about how the settlers were losing their faith. These sermons were inspired by the doom-saying prophet Jeremiah
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