Chapter 4
"American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692"
Study Guide
 

1. Describe the basic population structure and social life of the seventeenth-century colonies.
2. Compare and contrast the different populations and ways of life of the southern colonies and New England.
3. Explain how the problem of indentured servitude led to political trouble and the growth of African slavery.
4. Describe the slave trade and the character of early African-American slavery.
5. Explain how the New England way of life centered on the family, town, and church and describe the changes that affected this way of life.
6. Describe the various conditions affecting women and family life in the seventeenth-century colonies.

Identify: Half-Way Covenant, Salem witch trials, indentured servants, Nathaniel Bacon, Governor Berkeley, Royal African Company, middle passage, ringshout, New York slave revolt of 1712, Harvard