Awake, ye hethen!
O sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell.
Jonathan Edwards
Indentured Servants against the colonial leadership of Virginia in the 1670s over access to land
Bacon's Rebellion
Land allotment system put in place to encourage the immigration of poor servants to Virginia.
Headright System
This colony was originally a catholic haven, but had to write the Toleration Act to ensure that at one point.
Maryland
Began in 1754 over disputes between European Colonial powers in North America, later became global.
French & Indian War
He traveled about the colonies from the 1730s through the 40s, giving us a common-shared-experience.
George Whitefield
Against the Spanish Mission system in 1680
Pope's Rebellion
The Spanish used this to subjugate the natives and create a labor force in the Caribbean and Latin America
Encomienda System
This colony was founded by Roger Williams, when he "dissented" from the other Puritans because he had a guilty conscience about taking Native land.
Rhode Island
This began when the Spanish agitated an English merchant ship...and when Parliament "Heard" about it, they were furious.
War of Jenkins' Ear
John Wesley
Against slaveholders in South Carolina in the 1730s
Stono Rebellion
It gave Europe potatoes, tomatoes, & corn and the America's horses, cattle, and Smallpox
Columbian Exchange
Thomas Hooker founded this colony when he started the Town of Hartford, seeking greater religious freedom than existed at the time in Massachusetts.
Connecticut
In this one, the English allied themselves with local native tribes like the Narragansett to completely annihilate another native tribe...
Pequot War
They believe(d) in the idea of predestination and an all powerful god
Calvinists
Against English settlers in Massachusetts in the 1670s
King Phillip's War
It ended the French & Indian War
Treaty of Paris 1763
This was a proprietary colony, its owner sought to have it as a place of religious freedom for Quakers, and it became known for its friendly relations with natives.
Pennsylvania
This one was a series of coordinated native attacks against English forts in the 1760s...then the English drew a line.
Pontiac's Rebellion
Those of the period that rejected the new ways, tended to be more strictly puritan.
Old Lights
Passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses after Bacon's Rebellion to "drive a social wedge" between the classes.
Virginia Slave Codes
Type of slavery based upon ownership of property
Chattel Slavery
A buffer against the spanish, a place for debtors to be reformed, no slavery and no drinking!
Georgia
Mostly fought due to English encroachment on their lands in coastal Virginia...there was a brief pause when a marriage between the two sides occurred.
Powhatan Wars