Exam 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by  

Bacon's Rebellion stemmed from  

The Puritan system of Congregational Church government logically led to  

By 1700, the colonial South generally lacked  

English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called  

The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of  

The New England economy depended heavily on  

The Salem witchcraft trials were  

As a result of Bacon's Rebellion  

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Half-Way Covenant

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -conversions

The work and family schedules of the overwhelming majority of early American colonists were set by   

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William Berkeley

Why did colonial masters first adopt the institution of indentured servitude rather than Indian or black slavery to meet their demands for labor? Why, then, did black slavery replace indentured servitude?

Many of the slaves who reached North America  

Argue either that an American way of life had emerged by the end of the seventeenth century or that two wholly distinct ways of life, one New England and the other southern, had emerged by the end of the seventeenth century.

The great majority of Africans who left Africa as captured slaves  

The late-seventeenth-century rebellion in New York was headed by ____, whereas that in Maryland was led by ____.  

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Bacon's Rebellion

Assess the extent to which distinctions of wealth and status were widening or narrowing as the seventeenth century drew to a close? Why?