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Iroquois Confederacy
Cause: The French wanted easy access to the rich fur areas of the Great Lakes. The Huron wanted help in making war with thier enemies, the Iroquios. The created a pact to help each other Effect: French dominated the Northern fur trade and forced the Iriquois to create allience with the Dutch. -
Chesapeake colonies
Cause: King James I issued royal charters for England to begin the process of colonizing the mid-Atlantic region. The Virginia Company sent ships to Chesapeake Bay, to build the first permanant English colony, Jamestown. Effect: Lead to discovery of tobacco, a merchantable commodity for the english. Many ships would soon follow in hopes of building a new colony and expanding deeper into North America. -
Pilgrims/Sepreatists
Cause: The Anglian establishment in England forced this group to sepreate in to their own relgious sect. Effect: Led by William Bradford, a group of 102 pilgrims left England for Massachussetts Bay and named their new colony Plymouth. -
Navigation Acts
Cause: English manufacturers believed that merchant dominated trading monopolies didn't pay enough attention to them. King James wanted to ensure the colonies traded only with England Effect: England gained the bulk of the profit, reexporting the colonial goods elsewhere. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Cause: Indian rebellion led to Nathaniel Bacon and other tobacco farmers to indiscriminate murder of indians. Effect: Virginia Governer William Berkeley attempted to stop the unauthorized combat missions. Bacon, would then turn on the Jamestown itself with his followers. -
King Phillips War
Cause: English colonists in New England continued to push Indians out of their homeland. This inspired an Indian revolt. Effect: Approximately 4000 Indians dead and 2000 English, along with dozens of colonial towns and natives alike destroyed. -
Letter on Tolerance
Cause: With a new climate of opinion, John Locke best expressed new ideals about religion in his book. Effect: Inspired the Toleration Act, which allowed people in England and the colonies to worship freely. -
Glorious Revolution
Cause: King James attempted to increase royal control over colonies by abolishing charter governments and enforcing the Navigation Acts. Parliment was also alienated by the king. Effect: Bloodlessly, Parliament replaced King James with his daughter Mary, who excepted Parliament's Bill of Rights. -
Salem Witch Trials
Cause: During the witchcraft scares in the colonies, a group of girls in Salem calimed to have been bewitched by group of old men and women. Soon the whole town was full of accusations. Effect: Twenty people were executed and this event exposed the dark side of Puritan ideas about women. -
Queen Anne's War
Cause: The French and England were focused on who would control the Indian trade. Competition was also brewing in the Caribbean. Effect: Created 30 years of peace between France and England. Also gave England the exclusive right to supply slaves to the Spanish colonies in America -
Virginia Slave Code
Cause: Slavery was on the rise in the enlglish colonies and the colonists wrote slavery into law. Effect: Important avenues to a slaves freedom were cut off and life-threatening oportunities were placed in the hands of the slaves masters. -
Great Awakening
Cause: Enlightment thinkers expanded through out England and its colonies, causing a depression of church-goers. Effect: Men like Reverand Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield spoke out to the public and created a surge of believers and helped "re-awake the community". -
Poor Richard's Almanac
Cause: A very popular read in the during the colonial times, written by influential Benjamin Franklyn. Effect: Brought Enlightment to the colonies and possibly helped spark the decline of religious devotion. -
War of Jenkin's Ear
Cause: The House of Commons in England wanted to find a place to bring more slave colonies into the British orbit. The public was outraged when they heard about Jenkins ear, so England fought Spain in the Caribbean and Georgia. Effect: The British lost much of their white fleet and the Georgia-Flordia boundary was created. -
Stono Rebellion
Cause: Slaves most direct form of resistance was to revolt. Newly arrived slaves broke into the armory and marched toward Flordia. Effect: Killed some thirty colonists and burned several buildings, only to be overwelmed by the local militia. Influenced more revolts and haulted slave trade in Charleston for ten years.