Vocabulary
This was the transportation of millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas by European slave traders between the 1500s and 1800s.
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This type of evidence was permitted in the Salem Witch Trials - it included the dreams and visions of the accusers, not actual events.
What was spectral evidence?
The legal right or custom where the firstborn child (historically the male most of the time) inherits all or most of their parents' estate or succeeds to a title or throne.
What is primogeniture?
Another name for the French and Indian War.
What is the 7 Years War?
He was the King of England at the time of the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War. He had never actually been to the colonies, or out of England.
Who was King George III?
A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. Enslaved African-American people were at the bottom of it in Colonial America, with the least rights and freedoms.
What is a hierarchy?
These frequent events had created a great deal of trauma experienced for the colonists that could have played a role in the overall hysterics of the young girls who accused other women of witchcraft.
What were many had witnessed frequent violent clashes with Native American groups who wanted the colonists off of their land?
A historical English common-law doctrine stating that a married woman's legal rights and identity were absorbed into those of her husband. A married woman (known as a feme covert) could not independently own property, sign contracts, sue in court, or earn her own wages.
What was coverture?
This young Virginia Planter gained his first military experience trying to negotiate with the French over access to Ft. Pitt, and later fighting against them when negotiations failed.
Who was George Washington?
This was passed after the French and Indian War, by Parliament in an effort to prevent war with Native Americans. It stated that settlers could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains, as that land would be reserved for Indians.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
The horrific journey of enslaved African people to the Americas. Millions died along the way due to malnourishment and abuse. Many also tried and succeeded to jump overboard to escape the horrors.
What was the Middle Passage?
The people of Salem and the surrounding areas in Massachusetts were largely a _______________ religious society, focused on working, praying and establishing their colonies.
What was a Puritan society?
The hatred of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women and girls
What is misogyny?
Reasons why the French and Indian War is considered the first "world war".
What is because it was fought throughout the French and British Empires, so in North America, the Caribbean, Europe and India making it a global conflict?
Many colonists, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, felt this way about the Proclamation of 1763.
What was they were angry because they thought the whole point of fighting the war was to gain access and move onto those lands?
Slavery that is permanent and hereditary (passed on through generations by birth).
What is chattel slavery?
Epidemics of this disease (it was much deadlier to Native Americans) had also literally scarred and traumatized colonists, because when it came through, the death tolls were high. This too could be viewed as a contributor to the hysteria of the accusers.
What was smallpox?
A person who leads worship services, preaches, and provides spiritual guidance in Christianity. In most pre 20th century Christian settings this person was male.
Who is a minister?
Native American groups were divided in their support of the French or British, but typically more Native nations allied with this side.
Who were the French?
This land was gained by the British after winning the French and Indian War.
What were Canada, Florida, the land between the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River, trading posts in India, and several Caribbean islands that had been claimed by France?
A wealthy “farmer” (who did not actually do the labor on the farm) who controlled large land areas and had enslaved people and/or indentured servants to work the land for cash crops. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson fit this description.
Who were planters?
When it came to accusations of witchcraft, these type of women were often the targets.
Who were women who owned property (to try and use the accusation of witchcraft to take away her property), especially if it was a tavern and viewed by Puritans as a sinful occupation?
Taxes, tariffs, and tribute are all synonyms for this term. The colonists were not happy about these.
What were duties?
The French engaged in an extremely profitable trade of this in the Great Lakes region (with a lot of help from Indian hunters/trappers) and would ship it down the Mississippi River to then make its way to Europe where it was the most luxurious and warmest thing to wear and get through the cold winters.
What was fur? (Beaver, mink, raccoons, etc)
The French and Indian War was expensive, so Parliament created new ______________ to have the colonists help pay for it, and started trying to collect ones they hadn't really put much effort into in the past.
What were taxes?
An unofficial policy in the 17th and most of the 18th century (until after the French and Indian War) where the British government loosely (if at all) enforced colonial taxation. Therefore the colonists were very accustomed to not paying certain taxes due to very lax enforcement.
What was Salutary Neglect?
Reason why the people involved try to cover it up and prevent written criticism of the Salem Witch trials after it all ended and the hysteria went away.
What was the judges who were also religious leaders knew they had messed up and it had gotten out of control as these accusations spread?
After the French and Indian War (1754–1763), Great Britain kept a standing army in North America to protect the newly acquired territories and asked the American colonies to help pay for and house these troops. This was the overall response of colonists.
What was they were unhappy and did not like the presence or expense of these foreign troops after the war had ended?
This city developed out of Fort Pitt along the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers to meet up with the Ohio River. Hint - go Steelers.
What is Pittsburgh?
The British wanted their colonists to only by this sweetener from their colonies, not the French or Dutch. As a form of protest, colonists boycotted it by using maple syrup instead.
What was sugar?
This super fun event is happening on Sunday, October 25th at Waretown Skatepark. They'll be cool giveaways, food, live music, and lots of skateboarding.
What is Shredfest?
Reasons why innocent people confess to witchcraft and how it led to more accusations.
What is they wanted to avoid the death penalty or torture, so they confessed and it led to more accusations because they were required to give up other names as part of the deal?
This country was awarded the port of New Orleans and the land west of the Mississippi River in a secret treaty after the French and Indian War.
What was Spain?
This Native American leader who was dissatisfied with British leadership led a coalition of other Native nations to attack and capture multiple British forts between 1763 to 1764 before negotiating peace. The relations between Natives and colonists continued to deteriorate after this.
What was Pontiac's War, sometimes called Pontiac's Rebellion?
The Stamp Act was issued to collect duties (taxes) on these types of transactions or items.
What were legal documents like wills, playing cards, dice, diplomas, contracts, newspapers, and licenses?