410: Assignment #1
History 410: In-class writing exercise on the Colonial Period, Fall, 2023
Big themes of the course so far:
Settlement (motives, patterns, economics, emigration);
New England v. Virginia.
Role of religion in New England.
Development of slavery and racism in Virginia.
Contact and conflict between the civilized and the barbarians in Virginia and New England.
The fate of John Winthrop's utopian Puritan vision through the end of the 17th century.
Social, cultural and political impact of the Great Awakening.
Key Terms: Slavery, War, and God in the Colonies (5-8)
Indentured servants
Freedom dues
1619
Anthony Johnson
White solidarity
Bacon's Rebellion
Gov. Berkeley
Susquehannock
Headright system
Slave code (laws)
Condescension
Treating
Racism
Racial system of slavery
King Philip
Horticulture
Indianize
Property
Vacuum domicilum
Nomadism
Great swamp
Lay participation (laity)
Half-way covenant
Satan
Quakers
Ann Hutchinson
Witches
Epidemics
Supernatural meaning
Declension
Salem
Jeremiad
Puritan legacy
Congregationalists
Rationalists (Christian rationalism)
Evangelicals
Conversion experience
Cultivation of despair
George Whitefield
Gilbert Tennent
Exhorters
Key terms, Colonial beginnings in New England and the Chesapeake (classes 1-4)
Civilizational narrative
Barbarians
American exceptionalism
Enclosure
Black Legend
Hakluyt
Starving Time
Headright system
Indentures
Tobacco
Puritan
Puritan values
Middling sorts
Anglican church
God's saving grace
William Laud
Great Migration
Pilgrims
Push factors
Natural increase
Town Meeting
Covenant
Freehold
Competency