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| Englishmen who sought employment in the New World. They would work as servants on plantations and farms in America in exchange for passage to the New World as well as some other rewards such as land. |
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| It allowed a person who paid for the transatlantic passage of a worker to acquire fifty acres of land. |
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| An uprising of penniless, landless freemen, many of which were likely former indentured servants, against Virginia governor William Berkeley.Led by Nathaniel Bacon. |
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| The Royal African Company was a mercantile company set up to trade along the west coast of Africa. |
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| The appalling and miserable overseas journey between Africa and the New World which ships of black slaves would make in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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| Erupted in 1712 cost the lives of nine whites and execution of 21 blacks. |
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| South Carolina Slave Revolt |
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| Occurred in 1739 when more than 50 resentful blacks tried to march to Florida, only to be stopped by the local militia. |
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| Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance. |
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| A new style of sermon adopted by Puritan ministers in the middle of the 17th century.Took after the morbid warnings of the prophet Jeremiah in order to reignite religious zeal in New England. Scorned the waning faithfulness of the parishioners and warned of the punishment of hell. |
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| New formula for Congregational Church membership introduced by Puritan ministers in 1662. It expanded the "covenant" between the church and its members to allow baptism (but not full communion) for the children of those who were baptized but had not yet experienced conversion. |
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| A superstitious craze that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 and resulted in the executions of twenty people thought to be consorting with the devil. |
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| An uprising in late 17th century colonial New York, in which German American merchant and militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of the colony's south and ruled it from 1689 to 1691. |
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| Led Bacon's Rebellion but died the same year |
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| Sir William Berkeley was a colonial governor of Virginia who was resented deeply |
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| Anthony Johnson was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia, where he became one of the first African American property owners and slaveholders. |
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