Chapter 3: Colonial Life Study Guide

Spectral evidence

If a person saw another person's "specter(ghost)" and knew it was them doing the prickly feeling stuff. It was useful for the person accusing since they were the only ones who were to have witnessed the specter in that time.

Royal African Company

In 1672, Charles II granted a charter to this company so they could engage in the slave trade and bring slaves to the English colonies from Africa.

New England Social Classes & descriptions

Merchants -controlled city's trade, wealthy Artisans -skilled workers or shopkeepers Tenant Farmers, Servants, Slaves

Bacon's rebellion - causes & results

VA

Wheat Boom - Why did so few get rich from this? How agriculture fed growth of industries/capitalists

When many immigrants came to america so there was a large boom in wheat.

Grand Banks

area off coast of New England that teemed with fish

Fall line and its significance to NE

area where rivers descend from a high elevation to a lower one, creating waterfalls. Meant power for sawmills to cut wood

Subsistence Farming

farming to where it's enough for you

Slave Codes

first laws to regulate slavery issued by VA

Southern Class System

gentry yeomen indentured servant & tenant farmer & slaves

Gentry vs yeomen

gentry- elite state owners who served in govt, military, courts. yeomen- small backwoods famers that practiced subsistence farming

Gullah

language formed by slaves that had come over to america

economy in southern colonies & result

life revolved around plantation bc cash crops and wide rivers to ship things out result: more slaves for labor why: since south had anglican church members there was no need to hold bible meetings

Cotton Mather

man who temporarily

Indigo and Rice

perfect companion crops for South Carolina swampiness, rice one half of the year, indigo the other

Holy Watching

the religious duty of watching over your neighbor's acts

Middle Passages

voyage that brought Africans to America and about 20% died on the voyage

Plantation System: what, result, and lasting impact

what: southern colonies had own little communities that revolved around plantation not church result: increased slave lasting impact: severe class system in south