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29 Cards in this Set
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Virginia-Maryland bay area, site of the earliest colonial settlements
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Chesapeake
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Primary source of labor in early southern colonies until the 1680's
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Indentured Servants
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Person who led poor former identured servants and frontiersmen on a rampage against Indians and colonial government
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Individual driven from Jamestown who eventually crushed those responsible and wreaked cruel revenge
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Governor Berkely
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Organization whose loss of the slave trade monopoly in 1698 led to free enterprise expansion of the business
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Royal African Company
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Exp for which human beings were branded and chained, and which only 80% survived
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Middle Passage
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West African religious rite retained by African Americans in which participants responded to the shouts of a preacther
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Ringshout
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Major middle-colonies rebellion that resulted in the thirty-three deaths
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NYC slave revolt of 1712
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Some of the FFVs who controlled the House of Burgesses
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Less, Fitzhughs & Washingtons
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A MA governor with twenty-six brothers and sisters
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William Phips
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The oldest college in American, which reflected Puritan commitment to an educated ministry
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Harvard
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Founded in 1693 the oldest college in the South
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Willam and Mary
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Helped earase the earlier Puritan distinction between the converted "elect" and other members of society
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Half-Way Covenant
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Phenomena started by adolescent girls accusations that ended with the deaths of 20 people
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Salem Witch Trials
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Small New York revolt of 1689-1691 that relected class antagonism between landlords and merchants
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Leisler's Rebellion
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Small payment of goods or land given to indentured servants at the end of their term
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Freedom Dues
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American colony that was home to the Newport slave market and many slave traders
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Rhode Island
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English company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade in 1698
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Royal African Company
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African-American dialect that blended English with Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa
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Gullah
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Formula devised by the Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion
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1/2 Covenant
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Parry
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to ward off, fend off, deflect
a defensive movement in fencing |
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Predatory
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Preying on, plundering
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Ravage
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To destroy, lay waste;
ruinous damage, destruction |
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Stance
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a way of holding the body
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Tawdry
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Showy and Flashy but lacking in a good taste
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Turncoat
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A person who switches to an opposing side or party
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Unassuming
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Not putting on airs, unpretentious; modest
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Wallow
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T roll about in a lazy clumsy or helpless wat.
A wet, muddy or dusty area used by animals as a sort of a bath |
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Waver
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To move to and fro, become unsteady
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