| A | B |
|---|
| malaria, dysentery, typhoid | common diseases of the Chesapeake colonies |
| indentured servants | laborers bound out for a certain number of years for passage to the New World |
| headright system | granted 50 acres to whomever paid the passage of a laborer to the New World |
| disfranchisement | taking away the right to vote |
| William Berkely | royal governor of Virginia in the 1670s |
| Nathaniel Bacon | led a revolt against Virginia goverment, accusing it not protecting them from raiding Indiams |
| tidewater | eastern Virginia and North Carolina, dominated by rich planters |
| backcountry | the Piedmont |
| Middle Passage | slave shipping route from Africa to the Americas |
| Royal African Company | company chartered to engage in the slave trade for England |
| Mennonites | German religious dissenters who settled largely in Pennsylvania |
| slave codes | made slaves and their children property |
| chattel | property |
| rice and indigo | grown in South Carolina, made for harsher slaves lives |
| Tobacco | basis of slave economy in the Chesapeake |
| Gullah | language that developed among slaves on the coast of S.C. |
| banjo, bongo, goober, gumbo and voodoo | Gullah influence on English |
| Stono River revolt | S.C. uprising, 1739 |
| heirarchy | class and power structure |
| FFVs | First Families of Virginia |
| Yarrow Marmout | muslim slave who bought his freedom |
| family stability | common in New England because of longevity and extended families |
| grandparents | became common influences on young people in New England |
| meetinghouse | center of New England towns, church and town hall combined |
| Old Deluder Satan Law | required towns with over 50 families to provide elementary education |
| Harvard College | founded in 1636, oldest college in English America |
| William and Mary Colege | founded in Virginia in 1693 |
| Congregational Church | Puritan run churches |
| town meetings | direct democracy in New England colonies |
| Half-Way Covenant | measure to admit unconverted children of church members to boost church membership |
| the elect | those chosen by God for salvation, according to the Puritans |
| witch-hunts | Salem witch hysteria resulting in the deaths of 19 people |
| Small farms | common in New England |
| codfish | sustained the New England colonies |
| Liesler's Rebellion | an uprising of mainly Dutch small planters and merchants against the English power structure in New York in 1689 |
| James II | son of Charles II, replaced by William and Mary in the Glorious Revolution |
| Culpepper's Rebellion | rebellion in North Carolina against proprietary rule in the Albemarle region of the colony-1677 |
| New York conspiracy trials | resulted from an attempted slave revotl; 1741 |
| jeremiad | harsh sermon that scolded people for their lack of piety |
