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European Protestant revivalism spread to British North America. The new views hit the world.
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Young girls were performing witchcraft, with a slave. They didn't wish to get caught so they began to blame villagers of being witches. These accusations set the stage for the witch trials.
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Anglican authorities tried to eliminate Puritan influences on the church. To escape this, they migrated to Massachuesetts Bay.
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It was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. The document was written by seperatists, who were trying to escape religious persecution.
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Millions of Africans were being shipped to the New World as a part of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The long and agonizing trip was described as the "Middle Passage".
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It was composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas. Each of them had a symbol to represent their tribe. They occupied New York between the Hudson and Lake Erie.
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It was initiated because three Wampanogs killed a Christian Indian and threatened to arrest Meatacom.
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Bacon wanted to attack the Indians, whether they were hostile or not. When he and his troops were told to stop, he responded with violence.
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Peter was cherged with seditiously labeled Cosby.
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The Indians were the allies of the French. However, they turned on them. This led to their defeat.
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The purpose of it was to gain the support of Indians. Seven of the thirteen colonies, north of Virginia, gather in Albany, New York to plan for mutual defense.
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It was led by the Ottowan Political leader. During the rebellion eight British forts were sacked near the Great Lakes and seiged the people at Pittsburgh Detroit.
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It was made in the hope of ending the fight initiated by George the third. He enforced his control of land transaction, settlement, trade and other activites of non-Indians west of the Appalachians.
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Its main goal was to increase the revenues, which would offset Britain military expenses in North America. The result would be the end of Britain's policy of exempting colonial trade from revenue raising measures.
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The act ordered colonial legislatures to pay for goods that the soldiers, who were staying in their borders, needed.
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The representatives of the nine colonial assemblies met in New York City. They all agreed that the Parliament lacked the authority it needed to levy taxes outside Great Britain and to deny anyone a jury trial.
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They were created to cut the British land tax and pass it on to the colonists. It was proposed by Charles Townshed.
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The gaurds posted at the Boston House of Customs shot at a crowd of commoners because they were protesting British soldier abuse. The massacre ended with four men dead, seven wounded and one mortally wounded.
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They were the retaliation from the Boston Tea Party. It was a way for the British to assert their authority.
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This Act was made to save the East India Company. It would do so by relieving it of its import duties on tea entering England.
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Twenty young men dressed themselves as Mohawk Indians. These men and a crowd of people went toward the docks. They dumped the barrels of tea into the ocean.
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They endorsed the principles of Suffolk Resolves, which put Massachusetts in s state of passive rebellion. The outcome involves that colonies owed no obedience to any of the Coercive Acts.
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Most of the delegates opposed idependence and the Olive Branch Petitions.
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The petition was written by Dickenson. The document asked for the stop of firing at Boston, repeal of Coercive Acts, and negotiations to establish guarentees of American rights.
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This book was the reason the colonists lost the attatchment to their king. That lost attachment is the reason they could become truely independent.
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The importation of tea became illegal.
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Gates fought two battles near Saratoga. It resulted in 1,200 caualties on Burgoyne. Burgoyne's troops surrendered on October 17, 1777.
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The document made colonitsts purchase and use specially stamped paper for newspapers, customs, documents, licenses, college diplomas and legal forms.
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Gaspee was a British schooner that was enforcing unpopular trade regulations. He was caught, however the bay he was doing his illegal acts in is now named after him.
