Major Trends
A governor of Pennsylvania known for treating natives with fairness and respect.
Who was William Penn?
The Duke of York and King Charles's brother, who succeeded to the throne after his brother died in 1685.
Who was James II?
In 1692, a series of witchcraft accusations and executions in Salem, Massachusetts.
What are the Salem witch trials?
The economic system in which a nation's wealth is measured on accumulation of Gold and Silver.
What is mercantilism?
In 1676, he led Bacon's Rebellion against William Berkeley, the Governor of Virginia.
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
A slave from the Caribbean who was accused of witchcraft.
Who is Tituba?
A series of laws that illustrated the rights of Englishmen in the law and listed parliamentary powers.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
A rebellion in 1715 in which the Yamasee and Creek rebelled in Carolina. Ultimately, the rebellion was crushed.
What was the Yamasee uprising?
The leader of the Wampanoags who led rebellions against the New England Colonies. He united tribes but was ultimately executed.
Who was Metacom/King Philip?
In 1688, the revolution established Parliament over the crown in England and aquired the Protestant succession to the throne.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
A single colony that James II created that was made up of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, West/East Jersey, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
What was the Dominion of New England?
Race, slavery, changes in family structure/household, and the middle ranks are examples of major trends in this chapter.
What is economic/political change?
He was Virginia's governor, who ran a corrupt alliance with wealthy tobacco planters and led the colony into poverty with high taxes.
Who was William Berkeley?
The agreement between the Lenni Lenape Indians (Delaware) and Governor James Logan, in which the Indians agreed to give up a tract of land measured by how far a man could walk in 36 hours.
What is the Walking Purchase?
An alliance made up of the English and the New York Iroquois Nations.
What was the Covenant Chain?
Skilled craftsmen, weavers, carpenters, Scotish/Scotch-Irish immigrants, German immigrants (to New York), Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Methodists, Lutherans, Quakers, etc., made up a trend of this chapter.
What is cultural/religious diversity?
A Jewish Dutch silversmith from New York who became the city's most notable artisan. His life is an example of the opportunities offered to skilled artisans.
Who was Myer Myers?
An act established in 1690 by Parliament allowing all Protestants to worship freely.
What is the English Toleration Act?