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The early settlers of New England were grouped into familes, providing a more stable basis foe society. Both town and
Church in New England were Built upon a family foundation.Women's live in purtian New England lacked the same economic, political,
and legal rights affroded men, even though their contributions and labor were essential for a successful household.New England
basically sorted themselves into new social and economic groups, such as provincial gentry, yeomen, and indentured servants.
African Americans were considered by whites to be heathen and barbarous, and between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries
almost eleven million were brought to the Americas as slaves.The Parliment passed a series of Navigation Acts, which detailed
commercial restrictions, and set up the board of Trade to oversea colonial affairs and to limit compettion.Bacon's Rebellion
stemmed from economic depression and political repression in the virginia colony.King Philip's War led to England to annul
the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company and merge the colony of Massachusetts into larger Dominion of New England with
the Tyrannical Sir Edmund Andros as governor. Witchcraft, and its accompanying fear and reliance of the courts on spectral
evidence resulted in the hanging of nineteen alleged"witch" in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.
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An economic theory that shaped imperial policy throughout the colonial period, mercantilism was built on the assumption
that the world's wealth was a fixed supply.
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Certain essential raw materials produced in the North America colonies, such as Tobacco,sugar, and rice specifed in the
Navigation Acts, Which stipulated that these goods could be shipped only to England or its colonies.
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Attemted to eliminate the Dutch, against whom the English fought three wars in this Period.(1652-1654,1664-1667,and 1672-1674)
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An armed rebellion in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colony's royal governor Sir William Berkeley.
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In the Salem Trails witch trails, the court allowed reports of dreams and visions in which the acused appeared as the
devil's agent to be introduced as testiomony.
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In the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution in 1688, Jacob Leisler sized control of New York's government.
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