APUSH: Chapter 4- American Life in the Seventeenth Century

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introduction of livestock

The ________ had a negative impact on the landscape: deforestation and flooding.

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Massachusetts

________ passed laws requiring towns of 50 or more families to hire a teacher and 100 or more families to establish a school.

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Gullah

________ was created, which was a combination of many African languages.

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Slave codes

________ established a distinction between whites and black people.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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slave laws increased heavily; they can't read, write, leave the plantation

Effects of Stono Rebellion

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Sabotage, Slow down production, Escape, Rebellion

Ways slaves resisted

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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.

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Bible

High literacy rates because Puritan leaders stressed reading the _____

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scarlet letter, public whipping

Puritan tactics used to preserve marriages

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indentured servants

By the late 1600s, ________ ______ made up the majority of the population in the upper southern colonies.

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Headright System

Wealthy planters used this system to establish huge plantations.

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men greatly outnumbered women

reason for slow population growth in the South

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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

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Bacon’s Rebellion

the event that led the South to rely more heavily on slavery

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the reliance on agriculture

stunted the growth of cities and universities in the South

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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.

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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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