Chapter 3: Creating Anglo-America
➢ Last quarter of the 17th century there was crisis in European colonies of North America.
➢ 1675 an Indian alliance launches attacks on farms and settlements
➢ Wampanoag leader Metacom was known to the colonists as King Philip.
➢ King Philips war produces freedom for white New Englanders.
➢ England moved to seized control of Atlantic trade.
➢ Dealing with mercantilism, the government should regulate economic activity to promote
national power.
➢ First to come under English control was New Netherlands.
➢ English rule expanded the freedom of some people in New York, while reducing that of
others.
➢ English also ruled the position of the Iroquois Confederacy of upstate New York.
➢ English and Indians reinforced one another.
➢ Many colonists complain that they were being denied the liberties of Englishmen.
➢ In 16832, the duke agreed to call and elected assembly, whose first act was to draft a