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| Migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service, typically between four & seven years. Their migration addressed the chronic labor shortage in the colonies & facilitated settlement. |
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| Employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage the importation of indentured service, the system allowed an individual to acquire fifty acres of land if he paid for a laborer's passage to the colony. |
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| Uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers & indentured servants led by planter Nathaniel Bacon; initially a response to governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect backcountry settlers from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a broader conflict between impoverished settlers & the planter elite. |
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| English joint-stock company that enjoyed a state-granted monopoly on colonial slave trade from 1622 to 1698. The supply of slaves to the North American colonies rose sharply once the colony lost its monopoly privileges. |
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| Transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa & the colonies. Mortality rates were notoriously high. |
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| Uprising of approximatly two dozen slaves that resulted in the deaths of nine whites & the brutal execution of twenty-one participating blacks. |
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| South Carolina Slave Revolt (Stono River) |
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| Uprising, also known as the Stono Rebellion, of more than fifty South Carolina blacks along the Stono River. The slaves attempted to reach Spanish Florida but were stopped by the South Carolina militia. |
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| Self-governing Puritan congregations without the hierarchial establishment of the Anglican church. |
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| Often-fiery sermons lamenting the waning pity of parishoners; first delievered in New England in the mid-17th century; named after the doom-saying Old Testament prophet Jeremiah. |
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| Agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children. It signified a waning of religious zeal among second & third generation Puritans. |
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| Series of witchcraft trials launched after a group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts, claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town. Twenty individuals were put to death before the trials were put to an end by the Governor of Massachusetts. |
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| Armed conflict between aspiring merchants led by Jacob Leisler & the ruling elite of New York. One of many uprisings that erupted across the colonies when wealthy colonists attempted to recreate European social structures in the New World. |
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| Governor of Virginia who was eventually cast out due to Bacon's Rebellion, but later crushed the uprising. |
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| Twenty-nine year old planter who was the leader of the radical Bacon's Rebellion; eventually died during the rebellion from disease. |
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| Rare former slave who not only gained independence, but became a slave owner himself. |
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