Honors US History - Chapter 4 - Terms & People

English joint-stock company that enjoyed a state-granted monopoly on the colonial slave trade from 1672 until 1698.

• Bacon's Rebellion

• jeremiad

• Half-Way Covenant

• Royal African Company

Young Virginia planter who led a rebellion against Berkeley in 1676.

• John Rolfe

• Nathaniel Bacon

• William Berkeley

• Jacob Leisler

Transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies. Notoriously high mortality rates.

• indentured servants

• headright system

• middle passage

• Half-Way Covenant

Set of laws beginning in 1662 defining racial slavery.

• jeremiad

• slave codes

• slave laws

• Berkeley's laws

Uprising of Virginia back-country farmers and indentured servants led by a planter.

• Nathaniel Bacon

• jeremiad

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Leisler's Rebellion

Agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children.

• disenfranchise

• fertility

• Half-Way Covenant

• hierachy

Armed conflict between aspiring merchants and the ruling elite of New York.

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Leisler's Rebellion

• The Slave Regellions

• Salem witch trials

Migrants who signed an indenture for a term of service, typically between four and seven years.

• headright system

• Half-Way Covenant

• indentured servant

• menial

Fiery sermons, sometimes called doom-saying sermons.

• hinterland

• jeremiad

• tidewater

• disenfranchise

Royal Governor of Virginia beginning in 1641.

• William Bradford

• John Wintrop

• James Oglethorpe

• William Berkeley