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The encomienda system

Tools, clothes, money and sometimes land given to freed indentured servants at the end of their term of service. 

An uprising of poor yeoman farmers in Virginia. Their immediate goal was to have the governor promise to protect settlers on the frontier from Indian raids. Many of the men in this group died of malaria. This incident uncovered class warfare and serves to help transition America labor from mostly indentured servitude to slavery.

Native American life was ruled by

Only sign of distress, carved into a post, at the colony of Roanoke. 

Settlers to Jamestown and early Virginia landed in

The halfway covenant refers to

Nathaniel Bacon took over Jamestown to force the governor to

Native American beliefs were mostly

This woman was a part of the original Great Migration to Massachusetts, but fell out of favor because she began teaching bible classes for both men and women in her home. She is eventually put on trial, found to be antinomian and expelled from the colony.