o King Philip’s war
§ Summer 1676
§ Metacom/ King Philip
§ Vicious war/ Mohegan’s
o Nat Bacon’s Rebellion
§ 1676
§ Governor Berkley limits colonists expansion
§ Bacon raises troops and goes and kills Indians.
§ Berkeley declares Bacon an outlander
§ Bacon burns Berkeley’s mansion
§ British troops come.
o Salem Witch Trials
§ 1692
§ Shows the danger of church/state connection.
o The Great Awakening
§ 1740’s
§ Jonathan Edward
· Religious reverend “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
§ Leads to the funding of many universities
· Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth.
§ Divisions of church and state
§ Spirit of toleration (religious)
o John Peter Zenger
§ 1732
§ Trial for printing “advertisements” or political cartoons
§ Freedom of press
o French and Indian War
§ French/ English world domination and North America
§ French had natives on their side because they were more interested in trade while the English just wanted to take land.
§ French was the lesser of two evils.
§ William Pitt
· Savior of the war for the English
· Conquest of North America
· Able to barrow/ raise money to win war
§ James Wolfe and Jeffery Amherst
· Commanders that helped win war
· Amherst gave natives blankets from smallpox hospital
o Events that lead to the Revolutionary war
§ Sugar Act
· Tax on all sugar
§ Stamp Act
· Taxes on everything with a stamp on it
§ Townshend Act
· British troops to America
· Boston massacre
§ Tea Act
· 1773
· Boston Tea Party
§ Intolerable Acts (kings punishment)
· Closes down Boston harbor
· Revoked Massachusetts’ charter
· Soldiers- housed
· Administration of Justice act
· Quebec act
o Upset Massachusetts and Virginia
o Gave the land of the Ohio country into the hands of Quebec
o Sons of Liberty
§ Samuel Adams
§ James Otis
· “No taxation without representation.”
§ Crispus Attucks
· African American who fought and died in the revolutionary war
§ Paul Revere.
o Lexington and Concord
§ April, 1775
§ Paul Revere’s ride wasn’t only to warn the fighters, but to tell John Hancock and Sam Adams that the British were coming for them.
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