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Down: 1) (1662) Agreement allowing unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children. It signified a waning of religious zeal among second and third generation Puritans.2) set of laws defining racial slavery beginning in 1662, including establishing the hereditary nature of slavery, and legally limiting the rights and learning of slaves.3) migrants who, in exchange for transatlantic passage, bound themselves to a colonial employer for a term of service, typically between four & seven years. their migration addressed the chronic labor shortage in the colonies & facilitated settlement.5) (1689-1691) Armed conflict between aspiring merchants lead by Jacob Leisler and the ruling elite of New York. One of many uprisings that erupted across the colonies when wealthy colonists attempted to recreate European social structures in the New World6) transatlantic voyage slaves endured between Africa and the colonies. Mortality rates were notoriously high.7) Self-governering Puritan congregations without the hierarchical establishment of the Anglican church. Across: 4) 1712 Uprising of approximately two dozen slaves that resulted in the deaths of nine whites and the brutal execution of twenty one participating blacks. 8) (1739) Uprising, also known as the Stono rebellion, of more than fifty south Carolina blacks along the Stono River. The slaves attempted to reach Spanish Florida but were stopped by the South Carolina Militia.9) Employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage the importation of indentured servants, the system allowed an individual to acquire fifty acres of land if he paid for a laborer's passage to the colony.10) Often- fiery sermons lamenting the waning piety of parishioners first delivered in New England in the mid-seventeenth century; named after the doom-saying old Testament prophet Jeremiah11) English joint-stock company that enjoyed a state-granted monopoly on the colonial slave trade from 1672 until 1698. The supply of slaves to the north america colonies rose sharply once the company lost its monopoly privileges.12) (1692-1693) Series of witchcraft trials launched after a group of adolescent girls in Salem, Massachusetts, claimed to have been bewitched by certain older women of the town. Twenty individuals were put to death before the trials were put to an end by the Governor of Massachusetts.13) uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers & indentured ervants led by planter Nathaniel Bacon; initially a response to Governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect backcountry settlers from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a broader conflict between impoverished settlers and the planter elite
 

 

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