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New World
The system of temporary servitude in the ________ developed out of existing practices in England.
Church of England
The ________ was established as the official faith in Virginia, Maryland, New York, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
Headright System
________:** by which masters received additional land grants for every servant they imported.
Great Awakening
The ________ led to the division of congregations between "New Light "revivalists and "Old Light "traditionalists.
substantial proportion
Widows, widowers, and orphans formed a(n) ________ of the white population of the Chesapeake.
intellectual discoveries
The Enlightenment was largely the product of some of the great scientific and ________ in seventeenth- century Europe.
New Englanders
________ believed in the power of Satan and his ability to assert his power in the world.
African laborers
The first ________ arrived in English North America before 1620.
total immersion
All Baptists shared the belief that rebaptism, usually by ________, was necessary when believers reached maturity.
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.
London
The trading in tobacco and rice was handled largely by merchants based in ________ and, later, in the northern colonies.
Rice cultivation
________ was arduous work, performed standing knee- deep in the mud of malarial swamps under a blazing sun, surrounded by insects.
Primogeniture
________**: the passing of all inherited property to the firstborn son.
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.
wives of small farmers
The wives of plantation owners, unlike the ________, could rely on servants to perform ordinary household chores.
importance of reproduction
The ________ in the labor- scarce society of seventeenth- century America had particularly significant effects on women.
major bust
The first ________ in the tobacco economy occurred in 1640, and the boom- and- bust pattern continued throughout the colonial period and beyond.
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.
Religious toleration
________ flourished in many parts of America to a degree unmatched in any European nation.
Colonial cities
________ served as trading centers for the farmers of their regions and as marts for international trade.
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.
New England
The ________ population more than quadrupled through reproduction alone in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Great Awakening
The ________ caused one great upheaval in the culture of the colonies.
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