Fabiola Lara Lara |
Mr. Cirsovius
HIST 1301
January 27th, 2017
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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