7/27/2019 American History class notes
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Primary document due: Nov 1
Test: Nov 15
1. Slave resistance
-Stono rebellion 1739, NYC
2. Militia
-paramilitary
-civilians
Colonial society values
a man who has money here, no matter how he came by it, he s
everything (Rhode island
resident 1700s)
1- mercantilism/trade the key to colonial development
2- politics
3- population growth
Salem witch trials
1) Cotton Mather- primary source justifying the existence of
witchcraft
2) Economics, gender and Satan and Salem
3) The geography of witchcraft, influence
Split up into 3 groups
Greek Orthodox:
Catholic
Protestant: Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Calvinism, Anglican, Puritans [Winthrop,King Philips War]
-Its night
-Theres a moon
-Theres a church
-lots of smoke
-Houses on both sides
-theres dead people on the ground
