Where did former indentured servants go?
West (b/c nothing in Va and colonies for them)
William Berkeley
Governor of Virginia (didn’t help ex indentured servants against native attacks)
Nathaniel Bacon
Ex indentured servant, organized Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon organized rebellion with servants and revolted against Jamestown, Berkeley killed rebels & rebellion failed
Reprocutions of Bacon’s Rebellion
Animosity between servants and Jamestown - Bacon’s = first example of rebelling against distant authority
Middle man meaning
Person between supplier and consumer
Slave trade
Profitable for colonizers and Europeans
Slave codes
Rules on who was slave/how to treat them
Mennonites: what famous for
Anti-slavery (first) in Penn
FFV
First Families of Virginia: most powerful/first in VA
Head right system
Extra 50 acres of land for every endentured servant brought over
How have schools?
If towns (in NE) had more than fifty families
First university in colonies
Harvard (MA) - for religion/become reverend
First university in south
William and Mary (VA)
Half-way covenant
Able to be religious (NE) without being so hardcore, at least halfway
Elect puritans
Hardcore puritans, 100% member with a ceremony of church
Salem Witch Trials
1692-93: 20 lynched, 100s in jail
Biggest industries in NE
- Fishing
- Shipbuilding
- Lumber
- Whaling
- Trading/commerce
“Worth a candle” meaning
Very important b/c candles = expensive
