USHISC04 (Vocabulary) Tools A B Chesapeake Virginia -Maryland area, site of the earliest permanent English settlements Indentured Servants Primary laborers in the early southern colonies until the 1680s Nathaniel Bacon He led poor former indentured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government Governor Berkeley Colonial Virginia official who crushed rebels and wreaked cruel revenge Royal African Company Its loss of the slave-trade monopoly led to free-enterprise expansion of the business Middle passage Experience for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80% survived Ringshout West African religious practice, retained by African-Americans New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 Major middle colonies rebellion that caused thirty-three deaths Lees, Fitzhughs, and Washingtons Some of the "FFVs" who controlled the House of Burgesses "New England Conscience" The legacy of Puritan religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of Americans Harvard The oldest college in America, which demonstrated Puritan commitment to an educated clergynerations of Americans William and Mary Founded in 1693, the oldest college in the south Half-Way covenant Helped erase the earlier Puritan distinction between the "elect" and other community members Salem Witch Trials It was started by adolescent girls Leisler's Rebellion Small New York revolt that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants