Chapter 3 - Society and Culture in Provincial America

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Headright System

________: by which masters received additional land grants for every servant they imported.

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New World

The system of temporary servitude in the ________ developed out of existing practices in England.

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Great Awakening

The ________ led to the division of congregations between "New Light "revivalists and "Old Light "traditionalists.

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Church of England

The ________ was established as the official faith in Virginia, Maryland, New York, the Carolinas, and Georgia.

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substantial proportion

Widows, widowers, and orphans formed a(n) ________ of the white population of the Chesapeake.

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intellectual discoveries

The Enlightenment was largely the product of some of the great scientific and ________ in seventeenth- century Europe.

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African laborers

The first ________ arrived in English North America before 1620.

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Midwives

________ were popular because they were usually friends and neighbors of the people they treated, unlike physicians, who were few and therefore not often well known to their patients.

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total immersion

All Baptists shared the belief that rebaptism, usually by ________, was necessary when believers reached maturity.

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New England

The ________ population more than quadrupled through reproduction alone in the second half of the seventeenth century.

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London

The trading in tobacco and rice was handled largely by merchants based in ________ and, later, in the northern colonies Northern Economic and Technological Life.

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Black women

________ were often subjected to unwanted sexual advances from owners The Puritan Community.

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American college

Harvard, the first ________, was established in 1636 by the General Court (legislature) of Massachusetts The Spread of Science.

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Rice cultivation

________ was arduous work, performed standing knee- deep in the mud of malarial swamps under a blazing sun, surrounded by insects.

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wives of small farmers

The wives of plantation owners, unlike the ________, could rely on servants to perform ordinary household chores.

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major bust

The first ________ in the tobacco economy occurred in 1640, and the boom- and- bust pattern continued throughout the colonial period and beyond.

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importance of reproduction

The ________ in the labor- scarce society of seventeenth- century America had particularly significant effects on women.

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Wealthy planters

________ also shaped the livelihoods of small farmers, who could not effectively compete with the ________ and thus depended on them to market crops and receive credit.

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Religious toleration

________ flourished in many parts of America to a degree unmatched in any European nation.

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Colonial cities

________ served as trading centers for the farmers of their regions and as marts for international trade.

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English birth

A decrease in the ________ rate and an increase in English prosperity reduced the pressures on many men and women who might otherwise have considered emigrating.

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Great Awakening

The ________ began in earnest in the 1730s, reached its climax in the 1740s, and brought a new spirit of religious fervor to the colonies.

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Great Awakening

The ________ caused one great upheaval in the culture of the colonies.

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