CHAPTER 4 – AMERICAN LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

KEY TERM EXPLANATION

The arrangement, which was used in the tobacco colonies to encourage the
Headright System
importation of indentured servants, permitted a person to buy fifty acres of property in
exchange for paying for a laborer's journey to the colony.
Between Africa and the colonies, slaves suffered the Atlantic journey. The mortality
Middle Passage
rate had been as high as 20%. Survivors were then auction boards in New World ports
like Newport, Rhode Island, and Charleston, South Carolina, for almost a century
where a massive slave market dealt with human suffering.
Unconverted descendants of church members are allowed to baptize their children
Half-Way Covenant
under the terms of an agreement. It showed a decline in religious enthusiasm among
Puritans of the second and third generations.

EVENT DATE
“It was in 1670 led by a 29-year-old planter Nathaniel Bacon”
Bacon’s Rebellion
Salem Witch Trials 1692-1693 I was stopped because someone accused the governor's wife. And he
forgave the one already convicted.

Stono Rebellion (South An ill-starred and bloody insurgence that rocked New York city from 1689 to 1691
Carolina slave revolt)
I couldn’t find the Cato's or Stono Rebellion in the book I researched it and it said it
Leisler Rebellion? began September 9, 1739

KEY QUESTION EXPLANATION

What were the differences in New England: m,
the lives of women in
southern colonies and New Southern Colonies: white Women were used only mate and marry. As the ratio of men
to woman were at first 6-1 the 3-1. As told, they were very little woman in the south to
England colonies?
be with. Slave women, in particular, were victims of sexual exploitation, with rape a
continuous threat.
What evidence is there to
show that Puritan churches
were undergoing changes
in the late seventeenth-
century?
Be sure to include the
Salem Witch Trials and the
aftermath
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 CHAPTER 5 – COLONIAL SOCIETY ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION
KEY TERM EXPLANATION
Rum, slaves, and molasses were traded between the colonies of North America, Africa, and the West
Triangular Trade (86)5-6
Indies. A small but extremely lucrative segment of the Atlantic trade. Although modest in comparison to
total colonial trade, the so-called triangular trade was notoriously profitable. For example, a skipper
would depart a New England port with a cargo of rum and sail to Africa's Gold Coast. He would travel to
the West Indies with his enslaved human cargo sardined below deck, bartering the flaming whiskey with
African leaders for captured African slaves.
The colonies were swamped by a religious revival. The emphasis on direct, visceral spirituality was
emphasized by the participating ministers, particularly Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. In the
Great Awakening (90)5- nineteenth century, there was a Second Great Awakening.
10 or
As a result, the setting was set for a stirring religious revival. It became known as the Great Awakening,
and it erupted in the 1730s and 1740s, sweeping through the colonies just like a wild fire. The
Awakening was first ignited in Northampton, Massachusetts, by a intellectual pastor Jonathan Edwards.
Practically every colony utilized a two-house legislative body. The upper house, or council, was
normally appointed by the crown in the royal colonies and by the proprietor in the proprietary colonies
Royal Colonies(95)5-14
Governors were directly appointed by the king in colonial areas. Despite their abilities as administrators,
governors regularly clashed with colonial legislatures, who hated the imposition of power from afar.
Practically every colony utilized a two-house legislative body. The upper house, or council, was
normally appointed by the crown in the royal colonies and by the proprietor in the proprietary colonies.
Proprietary Colonies
(95)51-4 Local proprietors, who appointed colonial governors, controlled the colonies of Maryland, Pennsylvania,
and Delaware.
Salutary neglect was a British strategy toward its North American colonies from the early to mid-
Salutary Neglect eighteenth century in which trade restrictions were laxly implemented and imperial control of internal
colonial matters was slack as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British authority...

EVENT DATE
Zenger trial establishes a John Peter Zenger is being sued in New York for libel. The concept that honest remarks regarding public
precedent for freedom of officials cannot be punished as libel was established.
the press (95)
1734-1735
George Whitefield spreads The colonies were overwhelmed by a religious revival. The focus on direct, emotional spirituality was
the Great Awakening(90- emphasized by the participating ministers, particularly Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. In the
91) nineteenth century, there was a Second Great Awakening.
1740
Paxton Boys march on Scotts-Irish frontiersmen stage an armed march on Philadelphia in protest of the Quaker establishment's
Philadelphia (80) liberal views toward Native Americans.
January 1764

KEY QUESTION EXPLANATION

What were the key features of

the structure and population
of colonial society in the 18th
century? How did various
classes/hierarchies emerge?
What were the leading
industries in the various
regions of 18th century
America?

What were the causes and

consequences of the Great
Awakening?

NORTH AMERICA BEFORE THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR